StoryTitle("caps", "The Arrow and the Song") ?>
InitialWordsQuoted(3, "The", "mixed", "nodropcap", "indent") ?>
Arrow and the Song," by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this
volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to
recite it to me. She knew many poems, but this was her favourite.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shot an arrow into the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It fell to earth, I knew not where;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For, so swiftly it flew, the sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could not follow it in its flight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I breathed a song into the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It fell to earth, I knew not where;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For who has sight so keen and strong", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That it can follow the flight of song?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long, long afterward, in an oak", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I found the arrow, still unbroke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the song, from beginning to end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I found again in the heart of a friend.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Henry W. Longfellow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>