Crossing the bar (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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Editor: Robin Doveton (submitted 2009-01-31).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 147 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Crossing the Bar
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor solo
or Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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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.