Crossing the bar
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Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson.
Settings by composers
- Joseph Barnby SATB
- Charles Hubert Hastings Parry SATB
- Charles Villiers Stanford S or T solo
- Herbert Hall Woodward SATB
Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above
- Henry Holden Huss — Crossing the Bar
Text and translations
English text
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide as, moving, seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell
When I embark;
For, though from out our bourne of time and place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.