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

...shafts so trim. With base and capital flourish M round, Like bundles of lances with garlands bound. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...combined ; Thou- wouldst have thought some fairy's hanil 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wound In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell...

...0 fading honours of the dead ! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! 1 1 The moon on the east oriel shone 1 Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged...thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, 1 The projections from which the arches spring, usually cut in a fantastic face, or mask....

...foliage tracery combined; 'Hum wouldst have 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,...

...see below him, dropped into a bowery dell, a thing that seems to have risen there by enchantment. " Some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the osier...framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." In fact, there is, situation apart, a considerable resemblance between the...

...it was once jewelled, still makes a wonderful show with its intricacies of cunning stone- work : ' 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...

...alludes to it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel, thus beautifully : " Thou wouklst 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 wreath to stone." The heart of the Bruce was deposited in this place after the attempt of the...

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...St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, eoothly swear. Was never scene HO Bad and fair! . . . The moon on the east oriel shone. Through slender...combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist |x>plarH straight the osier wand, In many a freakisn knot, hud twined; Then framed a spell,...

...tracery combined ; " — we can, indeed, fancy that " some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined : Then framed...the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.11 The world knows those celebrated lines, introducing the Second Canto of " The Lay," and describing...