{"id":9314,"date":"2023-05-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2023-05-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:00:00","slug":"the-arrow-and-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-arrow-and-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrow and the Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045211\/1915-05-14\/ed-1\/seq-10\/\">Evening Public Ledger, May 14, 1915<\/a>. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I shot an arrow into the air,<br\/>It fell to earth, I know not where;<br\/>For, so swiftly it flew, the sight<br\/>Could not follow it in its flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I breathed a song into the air,<br\/>It fell to earth, I know not where;<br\/>For who has sight so keen and strong<br\/>That it can follow the flight of song?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Long, long afterward, in an oak<br\/>I found the arrow, still unbroke;<br\/>And the song, from beginning to end,<br\/>I found again in the heart of a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Evening Public Ledger, May 14, 1915. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I know not where;For, so swiftly it flew, the sightCould not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air,It fell to earth, I know not where;For who has sight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-public-ledger","category-newspapers","tag-henry-wadsworth-longfellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}