“I shot an arrow in the air, it fell to earth, I know not where. Many years later, still unbroke, I found that arrow in the heart of an oak.
I breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth, I know not where. Many years later, from beginning to end, I found that song in the heart of a friend.”
-Bascom Lamar Lunsford

ain’t that our Wayside Inn buddy Mr. H. W. Longfellow? Paraphrased?