 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1872 - 306 pages
...the shape of results. This is the meaning every Christian puts into Longfellow's delightful lines : I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I knew...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 106 pages
...Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE ARROW AND THE SONG. f SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew...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... | |
 | William James Linton - African Americans - 1878 - 470 pages
...hurrying hoof-beat of that steed, And the midnight message of PAUL EEVERE. TEE ARROW AND THE SONG. T SHOT an arrow into the air ; It fell to earth, I knew...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 240 pages
...incessantly, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! " THE ARROW AND THE SONG. C2i£. tSHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not...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... | |
 | John Page Hopps - 1879 - 120 pages
...foretaste of heaven, — ",Thou shalt know hereafter." Longfellow tells the old old story well : — " I shot an arrow into the air ; It fell to earth, I...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... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Presbyterian Church - 1879 - 410 pages
...to quote it, but I must indulge myself once more by repeating its sweet lines : " I shot an arrow in the air ; It fell to earth, I knew not where ; For...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 328 pages
...the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I SHOT an arrow into the air,...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... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 168 pages
...well-behaved man. He was certainly the last man who had his feet made fast in the stocks of that village. 49. THE ARROW AND THE SONG. I shot an arrow into the air,...and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterwards, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke ; And the song, from beginning to... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...'II not o'erlook the modest flower That made the woods of April bright. II. — William Culkn Bryant. I SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1880 - 308 pages
...the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE AEBOW AND THE SONG. SHOT an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew...keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of soug? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning... | |
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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... 
