can anyone help identify a quotation/poem I heard at a memorial service some time ago.?

Question

I cant remember all the words but the end was something like "while friends weep on this shore, on the other side departed loved ones cheer at your arrival" Not accurate I know, but that was the gist of a very moving reading. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

It comes from the Parable of Immortality by Henry Van Dyke.
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean blue. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down 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 just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And justthe moment when someone as my side says, 'There she goes' there are other eyes watching her coming and their voices ready to take up the glad shouts 'Here she comes!!'

Answer 2

Emily Dickinson
Could it have been one of Emily's darkly memorable quotes akin to this one:

Because I could not stop for Death--
He kindly stopped for me --
The Carriage held but just Ourselves --
And Immortality.

Sorry I couldn't precisely locate it.

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- Emily Dickinson

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