Always Alive in Our Hearts and Minds
I have this poem up on our frig under a picture of Andrew in which he is sitting on the beach
looking out at the ocean. In the distance you can just make out a sailboat.
Gone From My Sight
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 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 her 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
Gone From My Sight
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 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 her 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
posted by KW | 2:31 PM
7 Comments:
Thankyou, Karena- that was SO good. I can't say enough how good, and how real it is to me. I just felt a big YES when I read that.
Wow--that was good.
That is beautiful Karena! And such a comforting reminder. It'll all be okay someday when he has the chance to say, Here they come! as we cross the horizon! Praise the Lord! And thanks for sharing!
Karena, so glad you visited my blog and gave me your address! My Mom e-mailed a picture of you and your chillens with the Queen Mum recently. That was so cool! You know you have way too much information under your complete profile. The poem you shared is beautiful, touching, and heartachingly appropriate.
That poem really blessed me, Karena. Thank you.
Hi Karena-- I just had to say thank you, too, for sharing this. it was so good.
Loreo
haha...that was great....a real dose of Lori
humor (re: my profile). Yes, I like to leave a lot
to the imagination...
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