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    The Arrow and the Song
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    I SHOT an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where:
    For so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.

    I breathed a song into the air,
    It fell to earth I knew not where;
    For who has sight so keen and strong,
    That it can follow the flight of song?

    Long, long afterward, in an oak,
    I found the arrow still unbroke;
    And the song, from beginning to end,
    I found again in the heart of a friend.

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