From: Five Songs/A.E. Housman-Op. 14, No 3
Fun Facts:
1) The lyrics of this song were taken from Poem No. 26 in Alfred Edward Housman's Last Poems.
2) The poem has been set to music by a number of composers over the years, and this one, Jake Heggie's version, is the most recent.
"The half-moon westers low, my love,
And the wind brings up the rain;
And wide apart we lie, my love,
And seas between the twain.
I know not if it rains, my love,
In the land where you do lie;
And oh, so sound you sleep, my love.
You know no more than I."