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 a 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.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow