I Am Standing Upon the Seashore
Henry Van Dyke
1852 to 1933
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I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at ______ side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze ______ starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object ______ beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until ______ length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
______ where the sea and sky come
to mingle with ______ other.
Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she ______ gone!"
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. ______ is all.
She is just as large in mast ______ hull
and spar as she was when she left ______ side
and she is just as able to bear ______
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her ______ size is in me, not in her.
And just ______ the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, ______ 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.