...And thine, dark knight of Liddesdale! O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XL 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 twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed...

...Lay of the Last Minstrel, gives a most perfect idea of it: " The moon on the east oriel shone Thro" slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery...done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." The roof of the chancel, of which a part is still remaining, was supported by clustered pillars, the pedestals...

...book, lying on his breast in his grave — it is most unhappily out of time and place. " The moon in the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "I" \vi\t poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell,...

...tracery was beautiful. ' Thou would'sthave 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 wreath to stone.' The harharous hand of man, however, had been here, and Nature seemed endeavouring...

...moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery comhined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint...

...tracery combined; Thou vrould'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twijct poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined • Then...willow-wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint, 6 Whose image on the glass was dyed; Full in the midst, his...

...of the most delicate hue. It is thus beautifully described by the poet in a moon-light scene : — The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts,...the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stotie. SIR W. SCOTT, Bart. 73 The grand altar stood about the chancel or head of the cross, where...

...Thro' slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; One would have thought some fairy hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many...framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' " " Here," said Duncan, stamping his foot upon a large flag-stone, " here...

...tracery 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...done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. The silver-light, so pale and faint, Shew'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass...

...idea of it. The moon in the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliated tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought, some...framed a spell, when 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...