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 | Religion - 1852 - 784 pages
...remember that we were not first in the fray. Here is a beautiful fancy : — THE AEHOW AND THE SOVO. ' I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its night. I breathed a song into the air, It fell... | |
 | Music - 1858 - 846 pages
...Holies-street, Oxford-street. SECOND EDITIOK. "THE ARROW AND THE SONG," BAL U. AD, BY LONGFELLOW AND BALFE. I shot an Arrow Into the air, It fell to earth I know not where ; For so swiftly it flow, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a Soug into the air, It (ell... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Christian ethics - 1878 - 498 pages
...SCHOOL [TKerigf1ts of translation and of reproduction are reserved.^ PREFACE. LONGFELLOW has said — I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where. The arrow was a song, and he found it again in the heart of a friend. The words of a public speaker... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - Christian ethics - 1878 - 510 pages
...SQUARE. [The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.} PREFACE. ONGFELLOW has said,— I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where. The arrow was a song, and he found it again in the heart of a friend. The words of a public speaker... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - Bible and evolution - 1880 - 356 pages
...the witness-stand before the Judgment Throne, to testify for us or against us. Words are immortal. u I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where ; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. " I breathed a song into the air, It... | |
 | Mrs. Meldrum - 1882 - 212 pages
...Gertrude's additional lines. The reader may like to have them. Music by HW BALFE. Poetry by LONGFELLOW. I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth I know 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... | |
 | 1925 - 1084 pages
...retreated to a corner. "Go ahead," the grizzled old warhorse encouraged him. "Give us that one about 'I shot an arrow into the air it fell to earth I know not where.' " "Oh, he's heard that one," protested Spriggs. "Well, say the one about 'Gather ye rosebuds while... | |
 | Mrs. Meldrum - English fiction - 1884 - 424 pages
...Gertrude's additional lines. The reader may like to have them. Music by HW BALFE. Poetry by LONGFELLOW. I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth I know 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... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 1008 pages
...emphasis that hindered him from sleep, is equally true of much that is now spoken as Commencement counsel. "I shot an arrow into the air; It fell to earth I know not where." But in some heart of oak it lodged and remained, and is not lost. This year there were many such words... | |
 | College students - 1888 - 356 pages
...A HAKKOWINTJ SONH. 1'nrlli/ by Lonijfelluir, but iiHjstly by another fellow. I knocked a ball into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. I dashed to third, across the square, I... | |
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