Cover art for “When on my bed the moonlight falls” (”In Memoriam A.H.H.,” LXVII) by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When on my bed the moonlight falls” (”In Memoriam A.H.H.,” LXVII)

“When on my bed the moonlight falls” (”In Memoriam A.H.H.,” LXVII) Lyrics

When on my bed the moonlight falls,
I know that in thy place of rest

By that broad water of the west,
There comes a glory on the walls;

Thy marble bright in dark appears,
As slowly steals a silver flame
Along the letters of thy name,
And o'er the number of thy years.

The mystic glory swims away;
From off my bed the moonlight dies;
And closing eaves of wearied eyes
I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray;

And then I know the mist is drawn
A lucid veil from coast to coast,

And in the dark church like a ghost
Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn.

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