...base and with capital flourished around, Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound." And— " 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...

...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 foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's baud 'Twist poplars straight the...

...And thine, dark knight of Liddesdale. 4 O fading honours of the dead! 0 high ambition, lowly laid! 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...

...as it were some fairy creation, and would justify the verse of Sir Walter, when he says : 'Тпои wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars...wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed н spell when the work was done, Aud changed the willow wreaths to stone.' Many of the Douglas family,...

...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's Land 'Twixt 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 !7' The beautifully...

...uncommonly elegant and beautiful. Sir Walter Scott, in describing this part of the building, says— " 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...

...and other conveniences, were enclosed within a lofty wall, which extended about a mile in circuit. " 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...

...perfect, wanting only the stained glass. Here again the description of the poet answers to the reality : "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 'Twist poplars straight the...

...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...shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the...

...poem : — " 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 osier wand, 1n. many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a siKil when the work was done, And changed the willow...