Shomona's+poem

The Arrow and the Song

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow in the air, It fell to earth,I knew not where; For,so switly it flew,the sight Could not follow it in it's flight.

I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth,I knew not where; For who has sightso 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 beginnig to end, I found again in the heart of a freind