# White in the moon the long road lies

- Music: Arthur Somervell (died 1937)
- Words: Alfred Edward Housman (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6221611

## The words

White in the moon the long road lies,  
The moon stands blank a- bove; White in the  
moon the long road lies That leads me from my  
love.  
Still hangs the hedge without a gust,  
Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon  
the moonlit dust Pur- sue the ceaseless way.  
The world is round, so trav’llers tell,  
And straight tho’ reach the track,  
Trudge on, trudge on, ’twill all be well,  
The way will guide one back.  
But ere the circle homeward hies Far,  
far must it remove:  
White in the moon the long road lies That leads  
me from my love.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).