Wadsworth and Shakespeare (Hamlet) are wrong. It is our responsibility to know where our arrows land.KLB wrote:California is a mess, but why did he fire into the air? Why not the ground--if a warning shot was necessary?
Wordsworth didn't mean anything quite so literal, but the point is close enough that it comes to mind:
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.
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