The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Sunset and Evening Star

by Alfred Tennyson(Crossing the Bar by Joseph Barnby)

For other versions of this work, see Crossing the Bar (Tennyson).

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Sunset and Evening Star

(CROSSING THE BAR. Irregular)

Alfred Tennyson, 1889

Joseph Barnby, 1893

1. Sunset and evening star,
   And one clear call for met
   And may there be no moaning of the bar
   When I put out to sea.
   
2. 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.
   
3. Twilight and evening bell,
   And after that the dark!
   And may there be no sadness of farewell
   When I embark ;
   
4. 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.amen