Crossing The Bar

This was our Father's (Clarence A Dowers) Favorite Poem.

He served several years in the "US Marines" which is where he first heard this poem in the form of a song.

Crossing The Bar

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)

   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.

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