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Text:Sunset and Evening Star
Author:Alfred Tennyson
Tune:CROSSING THE BAR
Composer:Joseph Barnby

591. Sunset and Evening Star

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 crossed the bar.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Sunset and evening star
Title: Sunset and Evening Star
Author: Alfred Tennyson (1889)
Meter: Irregular
Language: English
Publication Date: 1937
Topic: Last Things:: Death and Burial; Names and Office of Christ: Pilot
Notes: For Choir or Quartette.
Tune Information
Name: CROSSING THE BAR
Composer: Joseph Barnby (1892)
Meter: Irregular
Key: C Major



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