Riders On The Storm
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The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there L. P. Hartley (1953) |
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Go back to sea...if only for a short time... |
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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. I stand and watch her until at length she 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: “There, she is 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 she is just as able to bear the load of living freight to her destined port. Here diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “There, she is gone!”, there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!” And that is dying.
Henry Van Dyke Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got ‘Til it's gone... (Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi") "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for..." |
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Ship's Song from the 70's (Riders On The Storm) |
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email: Woody |
John F. Kennedy US Naval Academy 1 August, 1963 |
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