Ziggy Suggests a Poem

Instead of saddling my children with the task of writing a poem to which a movie alludes (such as "Trees"), how about we turn to Ziggy?

The poem is "The Arrow and The Song" by 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.

It’s been a couple of years since I read The Song of Hiawatha. I should read more Longfellow.

And do you remember that distant past of forty years ago when mass-market cartoons would allude to literature for their gags?