Beginning with the speaker's assessment that there is one clear call for him, FTP, identify this poem that employs the metaphor of a sandbar as a line between life and death, intended to appear as the final poem in all collections of the poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
This poem is composed of four quattrains in which the speaker beseeches the reader, "may there be no sadness of farewell, / When I embark..."  The dark comes after "twilight and evening bell," and the speaker expresses his wish to see his "Pilot face to face" after the title journey is complete. Beginning with the speaker's assessment that there is one clear call for him, FTP, identify this poem that employs the metaphor of a sandbar as a line between life and death, intended to appear as the final poem in all collections of the poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
This poem is composed of four quattrains in which the speaker beseeches the reader, "may there be no sadness of farewell, / When I embark..."  
Crossing the Bar