All Through The Night

1. While the moon her watch is keeping,
All through the night,
While the weary world is sleeping,
All through the night;
O’er my bosom gently stealing,
Visions of delight revealing,
Breathes a pure and holy feeling,
All through the night.

2. Fondly then I dream of thee, Love,
All through the night;
Waking, still thy form I see, Love,
All through the night;
When this mortal coil is over,
Will thy gentle spirit hover
O'er the bed where sleeps thy lover,
All through the night.



Known in the 1800’s as “While The Moon Her Watch Is Keeping”.  From “John Thomas’s Welsh Melodies”, with lyrics paraphrased from Welsh.  Before becoming popular in English with these lyrics, this Welsh air was known as “Poor Mary Anne”, with words by Amelia Aldrson Opie .That song begins:
   “Here beneath this willow sleepeth
   Poor Mary Anne,....
   One whom all the village weepeth;
   Poor Mary Anne!”