Lorri posted a condolence
A Parable of Immortality
by Henry Van Dyke
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the 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.
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.
