The Arrow And The Song (op. 57, no. 6)

"The Arrow And The Song" is the final song from Lowell Liebermann's Six Songs on Poems by Henry W. Longfellow, op. 57 song cycle.

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The Arrow And The Song

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

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(Lowell Liebermann)