...Walter Scott describes this window, and the effect of moonlight upon it, in the following lines: — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's bud Twixt poplars straight, the osier...

...around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And thus he describes the foliaged window : " Thou would'st have thought some Fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier hand In many a freakish knot had twin'd, Then fram'da spell when the work was done, And chang'd the...

...wouldst have thought some fairy's liand Tviit poplars straight the oxierwand, ID many * freakish kuot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light so pale and faint, Sbow'd many a prophet, and many a saint,...

...of shapely stone; By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand "J'wixt 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 silver light,...

...pew, marked with a diagonal line, is shewn as the place of their interment. In Old English Characters. The moon on the East oriel shone, through slender shafts of shapely stone, The silver light, so pale and faint, shewed the twin sisters and many a saint, Whose images on the...

...posterity in those exquisite lines of the last and greatest of minstrels, in his description of Melrose. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed...

...Walter Scott describes this window, and the effect of moonlight upon it, in the following lines: — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the...

...imagination. Sir Walter Scott, in describing a night scene in Melrose Abbey, thus alludes to this theory : — "The moon on the east Oriel shone, Through slender...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...

...Sir Walter Scott, in describing a night scene in Melrose Abbey, thus alludes to this theory : — " The moon on the east Oriel shone, Through slender...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, Twist poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when...

...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale !§ O fading honours of the dead ! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely Btone, of armes by hut dedea ; he bnro always of usage three fethered dartea, and rychte well ho could...