The Beauty Stone
Song No. 17 Part 2 - Act III
 
The White Moon Lay on the Ruined Hay
Sung by Laine

MIDI Icon MIDI File 57 seconds. CD 2
Track 9

LAINE's voice is again heard.

The white moon lay on the ruin'd hay,
White as a shroud on the city wall! -
Though they cried him nay, yet he went his way;
For all their sighing he would not stay -
Oh, for the moon on the city wall!

Then tell him, pray, ye gallants gay -
Ah, tell him, ye ladies fair!
There is one doth wait by the castle gate,
At the foot of the castle stair,
And she cries Alack! come back, come back!
Ah! why doth he linger here?


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