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June 29, 2012 Quote for Today
THE ARROW AND THE SONG
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.
Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-1882]
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