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BALLADS, LYRICS AND SONNETS

FROM THE POETIC WORKS OF
HENRY WADSWORTH

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

M DCCC LXXXIX

Copyright, 1849, 1858, 1863, 1866, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1877,
1878, and 1886,

By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, JAMES R. OSGOOD
& Co., and ERNEST W. LONGFELLOW.

Copyright, 1889,

By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co.

All rights reserved.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
SHELDON FUND
JULY 10, 1940

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

WOR 19 FEB 30

THE ARROW AND THE SONG.

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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