I am standing on the sea shore. A ship sails and spreads her white sails to the morning breeze, and starts for the ocean.

She is an objecct of beauty and i stand watching her, till at last she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side say

"She is gone"

Gone where?

Gone from my sight ,that is all; she is just as large in the masts, hull and spars as she ever was when i saw her; and just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination.

The diminished size and total loss of sightis in me, not in her, and just at the moment when someone at my side says

"SHE IS GONE"

there are others who are watching her coming, and other voices take up a glad shout ;

THERE SHE COMES

and THAT is Dying!

Author unknown