Framed memorial to Harry Neilson

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Framed memorial to Harry Neilson

Framed memorial to Harry Neilson with a poem by John Masefield (which seems to be an adaptation of I Am Standing Upon The Seashore by Henry Van Dyke)

Text reads:

HARRY R. NEILSON, JR.
Northeast Harbor Fleet
Commodore
1951 - 1955-1956 - 1976

Treasurer
1959-1967

Life is Eternal
by John Masefield

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side
spreads her white sails to them 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
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
just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There!
She's gone," there are other eyes watching her coming, and other
voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!"

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