Show I THE LONG WHITE WAY I Ho itr ilKht ahead l oer the level plain in n llbbon of light It lies And It tiny ho wet with tho driving rain Or dfV to the drifting skies nut It lures me on to tho lands afar through tho arch of the azure day To the purple twilights swinging star As 1 lido on tho long whlto way And In out on the long white way ono In ire The I nth to tho skies of blue Of my broken prison tho open door To things that are strange and now I can StQ the light on Its level tracIe In the sun of a vanished day And tha Hinging of time call white way From tho end of tho long whlto way Ho straight ahead from the harbors mouth In 11 lluny of foam It lies A Hhlps white wake to tho burning south AWithhisits blazing sapphire sklca Sill has dipped her hag to tho fortress grim The guard of tho outer pay Sho has diopped tho hand neath tho oceans rim And shes off on tho long whlto way And shes out on tho long while way once more In lime suit of the ocean breeze Thp long white ride to a distant shore On tin backs nf the long while seas Where the wind whdppcd billows smoKIng smoK-Ing crests Leap on through tho racing day And the swirling screwblada never rests As U beats out the long white way Now on and up to the Ice and snow Oer tho skypitched crags It lies With n roar from the nightblack cleft below Where the pinioned torrent cries While shining bright In tho bluo above Stand tho peaks In their white array And point tho path to the land I love Dy tho Pass of the Long White Way And Im up on the long white way once more That ramps to the versa of sight Tho danger track oer tho Ices back With tho thin snows crustlncr while Till the pass Is won and the plunge begun Downdown to the glowing day To n land of orange and vine and sun And tb dust of the long white way Ohthe long white war with Its endless end-less quest Of distant seas and skies Tho anodyne to the souls unrest Ero who frees her wings and files lly the great white moon In Its purple night And tho sun In its azure day To the strange new worlds that are rising bright At the end of tho starstrewn way Umrancl Uba lwell |