This is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called “The Arrow And The Song”. It’s short and thoughtful. If I had read this poem when I was a kid I’m sure I would have enjoyed it. 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