...fair Mclrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, V.' hun the broken arches are black in sight, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...poems of Sir Walter Scott, and of l)r. Southey, the poet laureat ; and to such measures as these : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, When the broken arches arc black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's...

...remarkable ruins, we should say in the words of Scott, — ,Jf thou woulds't view fair " Kenil worth" right, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers...

...the work was done, And changed the willow wreattis to stone. Of the whole scene he thus writes : — If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, Ami each shafted oriel glimmer« white; When the cold...

...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. Of the whole scene he thus writes : — If thou would'at view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold...

...merely adding the description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; * In the drawing of Melrose Abbey in Slezer's...

...description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thou.would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; * In the drawing of Melrose Abbey in Slezer's...

...and harmonized, and thon shouldst feel God, always, every-where, and all in all. ON MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When...

...has read them in the scroll of ruin, by the pale light of the moon, " When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ;...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the niin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory." •...

...Encouraged thus, the aged man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO II. Ir tliou wouldst view fair Mel rose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver...