Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Published: Nov. 28, 2007, 8:36 a.m.

b'Tennyson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\n Crossing the Bar\\n\\nby Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 \\u2013 1892) \\n\\nSUNSET and evening star, \\n And one clear call for me! \\nAnd may there be no moaning of the bar, \\n When I put out to sea, \\n \\nBut such a tide as moving seems asleep, \\n Too full for sound and foam, \\nWhen that which drew from out the boundless deep \\n Turns again home. \\n \\nTwilight and evening bell, \\n And after that the dark! \\nAnd may there be no sadness of farewell, \\n When I embark; \\n \\nFor tho\\u2019 from out our bourne of Time and Place \\n The flood may bear me far, \\nI hope to see my Pilot face to face \\n When I have crossed the bar.'