The Toilers of the Sea Group

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poleroi
poleroi

An excerpt describing a ship sailing towards the horizon.

the author says something about how, even though there are eyes that will no longer see it, there are other eyes awaiting its arrival.

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Posted by poleroi on Tuesday December 9, 2008 at 5:37 PM and tagged with eyes, horizon, ship, the toilers of the sea, victor hugo.

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  1. scptak
    scptak

    Gone from my sight "I am standing upon that foreshore. A ship at my side spreads his white sails...and starts for the blue ocean... I stand and watch him until at length he hangs like a speck of white cloud... Then someone at my side says, `There! He's gone` `Gone where? ` Gone from my sight, that's all`. He is just as large in mast and spar and hull as ever he was when he left my side... His diminished size is in me, not in him. And just at that moment when someone at my side says, `There! He's gone! There are other eyes watching him coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, `Here he comes! ` And that is dying" (A poem by Victor Hugo)

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    Posted by scptak on Wednesday December 10, 2008 at 8:08 PM