The Arrow and the Song

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845) — a poem card from Justes Mots

An arrow and a song both vanish into the air — and both turn up again, the song whole in the heart of a friend.

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…

Themes: friendship