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For My Mom ~ May 10, 2012

 

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my

side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze

and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of

beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until

at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just

where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!”

“Gone where?”

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large

in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left

my side and she is just as able to bear the load of

living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment when someone at my side

says: “There, she is gone!” There are other eyes

watching her coming, and other voices ready to

take up the glad shout: “Here she comes!”

And that is dying.

-Henry Van Dyke

 

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