An open music box with a ribbon of silver light rising from it on a plum cloth.

Original artwork, not a still

The Arrow and the Song • 1845

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker finds a whole song again in a friend’s heart. Something once expressed has survived through another person’s feeling or memory. The image gives friendship a preserving power, making the return of the song an experience of connection rather than merely recollection.

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