There, She is Gone! Here She Comes! - Henry Van Dyke

[Larry Robinson]

There, She is Gone! Here She Comes!

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 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"!
 
         - Henry Van Dyke
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