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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On 17 Oct 2025 18:20:25 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan   
   ) wrote:   
      
   >In article <10cu15t$19nk5$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >>On 10/17/2025 12:09 PM, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   >>>    
   >>> 	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've heard the first two lines many times.   
   >>Is it a quote from a longer poem?   
   >>   
   >>pt   
   >   
   >Yes:   
   >   
   >	The Arrow and the Song   
   >	By 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.    
   >   
   >Bullwinkle the Moose also did a memorable version of it.   
   >   
   >	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfj744oqB0g   
      
   Always a joy to watch Bullwinkle's Corner.   
      
   In some ways, it is the funniest part of the program.   
      
   Which is saying a lot.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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