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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arrow and the Song

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  • Year Published: 0
  • Language: English
  • Country of Origin: United States of America
  • Source: Longfellow, H.W.
  • Readability:
    • Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.0
  • Word Count: 88
  • Genre: Poetry
  • 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.