Pursue the ceaseless way

Weather definitely starting to close-in around Edinburgh this afternoon - snap is of my local park ...

... the tree-lined path reminded me of this A.E.Housman poem, taken from his famous 'A Shropshire Lad':


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.

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A. E. Housman (1859–1936)

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