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...r ffith base and with capital flourish'd around, Seem'd bundtes of lances which yarhniis 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 haud T' wirt poplars itraight the...

...And thine, dark knight of Liddesdale ! O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid! The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hiuid 'Twixt poplars straight the...

...tbine, dink Knight of Ltddesdale !§ 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, . of armes by hi« dedpj i lie burn iilwaj-j of usuire, throe felhored aUU*. and rychto well be could...

...ambition, lowly laid! The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand The silver light so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image...

...emulate in stone." Of the latter, in speaking particularly of the east window of the church, he says, " The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliagcd tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the...

...Ana thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale$ O fading honours of the dead! O high amhition, lowly laid! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone,§ Through slender shafts of shapely $tone, a CorMl*, the projertious from which theu archel wmalty cnt in a tantaatic face, or mask. t...

...with that of many a heroic Douglas,* and where " Througb slender shafts of shapely stone, By foilaged tracery combined, Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's...poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; , Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to...

...fancy is analogous to fact, does not impair the pleasure of the mind in rememhering the hour when " The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery comhined. Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier...

...view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so nad and fair ! He cannot cure every vice by substitutirig foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the...