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Replies to #9217 on az2820

dbleagl

03/22/06 11:52 PM

#9219 RE: Missy #9217

Az was lucky to have so many loving friends.
she will live within everyone she touched...rest in peace AZ

"Gone From My Sight"

by: Henry Van Dyke



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!"



And that is dying.



Henry Van Dyke

Wildbilly

03/21/12 10:18 PM

#9412 RE: Missy #9217

Ahhh Missy, I'm not sure what led
me here tonigh(Ihub can do that, lol), but when I saw "shipmate" in your post it brought
a big ole' smile to my face. I can still laugh out loud remembering you and Marie hiding
up in the crow's nest from me scurvies. Those were fun times.

cheers matie,

~doghawk