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Thread #141561   Message #3258725
Posted By: Barbara Shaw
17-Nov-11 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Poems, Songs, Readings for a Funeral?
Subject: RE: Poems, Songs, Readings for a Funeral?
Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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.

Rani Arbo put this to music beautifully with her former band Salamander Crossing. Very sorry for your loss.