the assorted works of G. H. Spaulding

 

 

In Memoriam

In memory of our departed friends:

    

 

                Guy Rettig      Greg Bushnell    Foggy Bob Brooks Jim Patterson

           

 

        Sid Hanisee        Jim Carter        Ev Spaulding       Betsy Traub       Jean Schrager

        

        

            Bill Blase         "Hoot" Gibson       Leroy Wood         Leo Dete      Chuck Embach 

         

 

Frank Mikusi

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I’m Not There

By

Robert Hepburn

 

 

Do not stand at my grave and weep;

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

 

When you awake

in the morning’s hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

of quiet birds in circling flight,

I am the soft stars

that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there, I did not die.

 

 

 

 

A poem by

Bishop Brent
1862 - 1926
 
I am standing on the sea shore,
A ship sails in the morning breeze and starts for the ocean.
She is an object of beauty and I stand watching her
Till at last she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says:
"She is gone."
 
Gone! Where?
Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large in the masts, hull and spars as she was when I saw her
And just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination.
The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me,
not in her.
 
And just at the moment when someone at my side says,
"She is gone",
There are others who are watching her coming, and other voices take up a glad shout:
"There she comes"
- and that is dying.  A horizon and just the limit of our sight.
Lift us up, Oh Lord, that we may see further.
 

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