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"Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the music for this version is by American musician Rani Arbo. Tennyson, it is said, wrote the poem in elegy; the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the "sandbar" between the river of life, with its outgoing "flood", and the ocean [death] that lies beyond.