Monday, May 22, 2023
Last week we said goodbye to my husband Ken's brother, my brother-in-law. The following poem, Gone from Sight by Henry Van Dyke captures hope and remembrance of an avid family man, sailor and friend...
I am standing on the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I will stand and 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 her; and just 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!'
You will be missed, Rob!
