Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall

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.