...thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined : Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." SIR WALTEK SCOTT. « HERE I am. within ten leagues of Paris, spending the time pleasantly in viewing...

...Gothic structure, are decorated with stained glass : — " The silver light so pale and faint, Shews many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass is dyed." FIRST WINDOW, SOUTH SIDE. The window contains whole length portraits of St. James the Less,...

...thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed...willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and fault, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst,...

...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' The carved figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are many of them very curious. There is the...

...fairy's hand *Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone !" The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward " On...

...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths, tP atone," Melrose Abbey was founded by David I., of Scotland, somewhere in the year 1136. The English...

...thought some fairy hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." * Through the smaller windows, also, on the east, the moon's rays streamed, throwing on the opposite...

...wrought stone into such forms, or rather that some fairy had twined ozier wands through poplars — " Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to stone." But everybody has the beautiful and weird scene at Melrose in the " Lay of the Last...

...As if some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozler wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to etone." Returning to Edinburgh, we had a fresh interest in studying out ita antiquities,...

...thought some fairy's hanil 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wound In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." Snow Hill is the name of another very beautiful stalagmite of nearly equal...