Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Arrow and the Song
Additional Information
- Flesch–Kincaid Level 9.0
- Word Count: 88
- Year Published: 0
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Language: English
- Genre: Poetry
- Source: Longfellow, H.W.
- Keywords: friendship
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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.