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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Richard HenryStoddard

477 The Flight of the Arrow

THE LIFE of man

Is an arrow’s flight,

Out of darkness

Into light,

And out of light

Into darkness again;

Perhaps to pleasure,

Perhaps to pain!

There must be Something,

Above, or below;

Somewhere unseen

A mighty Bow,

A Hand that tires not,

A sleepless Eye

That sees the arrows

Fly, and fly;

One who knows

Why we live—and die.