| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 191. The Arrow and the Song |
| | | By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| 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. | |
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| I breathed a song into the air, | 5 |
| It fell to earth, I knew not where; | |
| For who has sight so keen and strong | |
| That it can follow the flight of song? | |
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| Long, long afterward, in an oak | |
| I found the arrow, still unbroke; | 10 |
| And the song, from beginning to end, | |
| I found again in the heart of a friend. | |
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