I Am Standing Upon the Seashore
Henry Van Dyke
1852 to 1933
Track 1
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I am standing upon the seashore.
at my side says, "There, she is gone!
and spar as she was when she left my side
Gone from my sight. That is all.
Gone where?
A ship at my side spreads her white
load of living freight to her destined port.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
Then, someone at my side says;
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
There are other eyes watching her coming,
Here she comes!
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
to mingle with each other.
and she is just as able to bear her
just where the sea and sky come
for the blue ocean.
I stand and watch her until at length
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout;
She is just as large in mast and hull
And that is dying.
sails to the morning breeze and starts
And just at the moment when someone
There, she is gone!
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