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