The Arrow and the Song

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1. I shot an arrow into the air,
2. It fell to earth, I knew not where;
3. For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
4. Could not follow it in its flight.
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6. I breathed a song into the air,
7. It fell to earth, I knew not where;
8. For who has sight so keen and strong,
9. That it can follow the flight of song?
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11. Long, long afterward, in an oak
12. I found the arrow, still unbroke;
13. And the song, from beginning to end,
14. I found again in the heart of a friend.