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I am Standing on a Sea Shore

I am standing on a sea shore
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,
and I stand a watch her until
at length - she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky
come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, "There! She's 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 just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her;
and just at the moment when someone at my side
says, "There, She's gone",
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready
to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!"
And that is dying.

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