...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou vrould'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twijct poplars straight the...

...offering up Isaac. The whole re. minds the visitor of Scott's beautiful description of Melrcisn Abbey:— The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, Hy foliaged tracery comhined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's band "Twixt poplars straight,...

...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would' st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the...

...stately stone, By ioliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought, some fairy's hand "Twist poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spoil, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. Of the whole scene he thus...

...the evening sky, is really surprising, — an idea of which is not unaptly given in these lines : " The moon on the .East oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliaged tracery combin'd ; Thou woiild'st have thought some Fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight, the...

...With base and capital furnish'd around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. • * » . The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the...

...aisle, has not been compelled to think of the wicker temples of the Saxons, and that some magician " 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had tied, Then framed a spell when the work was done, That changed the willow wreath to stone ?" Among...

...view in which she could distinguish all the striking parts of the building, so picturesquely described in the Lay of the last Minstrel. The moon on the east...shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought, some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight,...

...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 fulinge tracery combined ; Thou wouklst havo thought some fairy's 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier...

...are so gracefully and airily enwreathed, that, in our moonlight imaginings, we might almost think " Some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot hath twined ; Then framed a spell, where the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to stone."...