Written by: Henry Van Dyke "I am standing upon the seashore. 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 and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then some at my side says, "There she goes!" "Gone where? Gone from my sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar