Het is een Iers slaapliedje dat uit 4 verzen bestaat. Sir Harold Boulton (1859 - 1935) schreef het lied in 1884. Laurie zingt alleen het eerste vers.

De andere 3 verzen zijn:

<pre style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #eeeeee; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">While the moon her watch is keeping <br></br>
All through the night <br></br>
While the weary world is sleeping <br></br>
All through the night <br></br>
O'er thy spirit gently stealing <br></br>
Visions of delight revealing <br></br>
Breathes a pure and holy feeling <br></br>
All through the night <br></br><br></br>
Though I roam a minstrel lonely <br></br>
All through the night <br></br>
My true harp shall praise sing only <br></br>
All through the night <br></br>
Love's young dream, alas, is over <br></br>
Yet my strains of love shall hover <br></br>
Near the presence of my lover <br></br>
All through the night <br></br><br></br>
Hark, a solemn bell is ringing <br></br>
Clear through the night <br></br>
Thou, my love, art heavenward winging <br></br>
Home through the night <br></br>
Earthly dust from off thee shaken <br></br>
Soul immortal shalt thou awaken <br></br>
With thy last dim journey taken <br></br>
Home through the night</span>