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  2. Crossing the Bar - Wikipedia

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    Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 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 that lies beyond death , the "boundless deep", to which we return.

  3. Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Wikipedia

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    Charles Villiers Stanford set "Crossing the Bar" for high voice and piano in April 1880, a year after the poem has been first published. [69] Maude Valérie White (four songs, 1885) and Liza Lehmann (10 songs, 1899) both composed song cycles selecting passages from In Memoriam . [ 70 ]

  4. Moaning sandbar - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-19th-century, the phrase "the harbor bar be moaning" in the poem and lyric "Three Fishers" connected working-class suffering to the noises. Later in that century, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar", coupling "May there be no moaning of the bar" with images of life's end, and then designated it as essentially his own ...

  5. Enoch Arden - Wikipedia

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    Enoch Arden (watercolour painting by George Goodwin Kilburne). Fisherman-turned-merchant sailor Enoch Arden leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, having lost his job due to an accident; reflective of a masculine mindset common in that era, Enoch sacrifices his comfort and the companionship of his family in order to better support them.

  6. Break, Break, Break - Wikipedia

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    Like "On a Mourner," written a year before, both poems use a very simple style and describe a scene in minimalistic terms. This technique is later used in later elegies written by Tennyson, including "Crossing the Bar", "In the Garden at Swainston", and "To the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava". In several of his works, including "On a Mourner ...

  7. How to save for a home down payment when rates are falling - AOL

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    Bottom line. Savings rates have been trending downward, but there are still ways to maximize savings to buy a home. If you’re stressed about the next potential interest rate movement, McBride ...

  8. Tragic discovery in Oregon: Missing hiker’s body found ...

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    The search for missing hiker Susan Lane-Fournier, 61, took a tragic turn after her body was found over the weekend in Welches, Oregon, an unincorporated community at the base of Mount Hood.

  9. New Shamrock opening in Brannon Crossing: 31 TVs, 32 beer ...

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    The new Shamrock Bar & Grille is opening in Brannon Crossing. The bar is moving to a growing area, where Publix is expected to open in coming years, and Wawa is expected to break ground June 5 on ...