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"The Arrow and the Song"

— by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Longfellow is one of my favorite poets, and this particular piece has always been one of my favorite poems, so much said in so few words.

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.

FAVORITE QUOTE

"Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness." — John Sterling

PLEASE NOTE

The star on my pages was a graphic that I made personally in 1994 when I was first learning how to do animations. This star has been a standard on my Rattt Trap pages since their creation in 1994; specifically my newsletter pages, The Back Fence.