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FuneralChaplain's note: This work is a comfort to families because it reminds us that this life is not the end, and that death is but a passage from this world into the next. While often attributed to Victor Hugo (The Toilers of the Sea (1896) |
), this was more likely written by either Henry Van Dyke or Bishop Charles Henry Brent. For more on the authorship, please see this I am standing upon that foreshore.
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 her until at length she hangs like a speck of white clouds just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other.
