<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">There, She is Gone! Here She Comes!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, I</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">with each other.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Then someone at my side says: "There, she is gone"!</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">"Gone where"?</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">her destined port.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone"!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">there are other eyes watching her coming, and other</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">voices ready to take up the glad shout: "Here she comes"!</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Henry Van Dyke</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>