617. The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow read by Classic Poetry Aloud\n\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\nTwitter: @classicpoetry\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/poetryaloud\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nThe Arrow and the Song\nby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 \u2013 1882) \n\nI shot an arrow into the air,\nIt fell to earth, I knew not where;\nFor, so swiftly it flew, the sight\nCould not follow it in its flight.\n\nI breathed a song into the air,\nIt fell to earth, I knew not where;\nFor who has sight so keen and strong\nThat it can follow the flight of song?\n\nLong, long afterward, in an oak\nI found the arrow, still unbroke;\nAnd the song, from beginning to end,\nI found again in the heart of a friend. \n\n\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud, 2008.