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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 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 afterwards, 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.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor!

I never thought an angry person valiant;

Virtue is never aided by a vice.

—Ben Jonson.