White in the moon the long road lies

White in the moon the long road lies,
 The moon stands blank above;
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
 Pursue the ceaseless way.
 
The world is round, so travellers tell,
 And straight though 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.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 36, published 1896

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Robert F. Baksa (1938-) , "White in the moon", from Housman Songs, no. 5.
by James Brown , "White in the moon" [voice and piano]
by John Woods Duke (1899-1984) , "White in the moon", 1934, published 1948 [medium voice and piano], from Two songs, no. ?
by Oscar J. Fox (1879-1961) , "White in the moon the long road lies", published 1932. [SSA or TTBB chorus and piano]
by William Parks Grant (1910-) , "White in the moon the long road lies", op. 7 (A Shropshire Lad) no. ? [tenor and piano]
by Jake Heggie (1961-) , "White in the moon", 1990.
by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910-1998) , "White in the moon the long road lies", from A Shropshire Lad, no. 5.
by Henry George Ley (1887-) , "White in the moon", published <<1940.
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872-1951) , "Exile", published 1914, from A Shropshire Lad, no. ?
by Hugh Priestley-Smith , "White in the moon the long road lies", published <<1943 [voice and piano], from From the West Country, no. ?
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "White in the moon the long road lies", published 1904 [voice and piano], from A Shropshire Lad, no. 7.
by Freda Swain (1902-) , "White in the moon the long road lies", 1925, rev. 1973 [tenor and piano ensemble], from The Lost Heart, no. ?
by E. Kendal Taylor , "White in the moon", published 1925. [voice and piano]

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