Donald Harley Spencer's Obituary
Don Spencer passed away from a stroke on August 20, 2009. He was at peace and in no pain. His family takes comfort from the fact that although he no longer walks in our world, he has gone on to another place.
A Parable of Immortality
By Henry Van Dyke
I am standing at the seashore
A ship at my side spreads his white sails to the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean
He is an object of beauty and strength
And I stand and watch till he 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 -Å"There he goes!-
Gone where? Gone from sight, that's all.
He is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as he was when he left my side
and just as able to bear the load of freight to the places of destination
The diminished size is in me, not in him
And just at the moment when someone at my side says
-Å"There he goes!-
There are other eyes watching him coming
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout
-Å"Here he comes!-
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