Show bur Tenny sons famous poem crossing the bar was written says the present lord tennyson in the poets eighty first year on in october when vre came from aldworth to farring ford before reaching Farring ford ho bad bad the moaning of the bar in bis mind and after dinner he showed me the written out that Is the crown of your lifes work said hla son who was the first man after the poet to read crossing the bar and who passed the first criticism upon it in such fitting and generous language it came in a moment said the poet and he explained the pilot as the divine and unseen who Is always guiding us A adny or two before he died the poet calling bis eon to bis bedside said mind you put crossing the bar at the end of all editions of my poems |