Text Tuesday – Prose – “The Arrow and The Song” – by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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For my family and friends, who have more for me than they know. I give you my heart and all my love.

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,