In Chapter 39 of Anne’s House of Dreams, Anne visits Captain Jim and finds the old man talking of his death. Captain Jim feels that “It won’t be very long now before lost Margaret calls me, for the last time. I’ll be all ready to answer.” He goes on to make a request from Anne:

“I heard you reading a piece of poetry one day last winter–one of Tennyson’s pieces. I’d sorter like to hear it again, if you could recite it for me.”

Softly and clearly, while the seawind blew in on them, Anne repeated the beautiful lines of Tennyson’s wonderful swan song– “Crossing the Bar.” The old captain kept time gently with his sinewy hand.

“Yes, yes, Mistress Blythe,” he said, when she had finished, “that’s it, that’s it. He wasn’t a sailor, you tell me–I dunno how he could have put an old sailor’s feelings into words like that, if he wasn’t one. He didn’t want any `sadness o’ farewells’ and neither do I, Mistress Blythe–for all will be well with me and mine beyant the bar.”

The poem is also referenced in the title of chapter 36, “Captain Jim Crosses the Bar.”

“One Clear Call” is the title for Chapter 15 of Magic for Marigold.