First published in my private blog the summer of 2009. Note on picture: taken last last Fall, possibly November 2010 riding in the passenger side of a car stopped at a traffic light. To me, the birds on a wire are akin to the arrow and the song in this poem.
The Arrow and the Song
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
