Industrious hands on sea and soil.

Here sun-brown Toil, with shining spade,

Links lake to lake with silver ties

Strung thick with palaces of trade,

And temples towering to the skies.

THE ARROW AND THE SONG[17]

By Henry W. Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight