Crossing the bar (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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CPDL #27052:   Sibelius 6 

Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2012-08-30).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 36 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Crossing the Bar
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: Set to the tune "Freshwater".

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Original 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 tho' 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.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1948, 1918)