...pew, marked with a diagonal line, is shewn as the place of their interment. In Old English Characters. The moon on the East oriel shone, through slender shafts of shapely stone, The silver light, so pale and faint, shewed the twin sisters and many a saint, Whose images on the...

...posterity in those exquisite lines of the last and greatest of minstrels, in his description of Melrose. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twin'd ; Then framed...

...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 foliage tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the...

...imagination. Sir Walter Scott, in describing a night scene in Melrose Abbey, thus alludes to this theory : — "The moon on the east Oriel shone, Through slender...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...

...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale !§ O fading honours of the dead ! 0 high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely Btone, of armes by hut dedea ; he bnro always of usage three fethered dartea, and rychte well ho could...

...and now they seem to be rather like a painting than a mere verbal description. " The moon on the cast oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone,...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's band, 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed...

...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...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...

...refers, in his description of Melrose Abbey, in the Lay of 'the Last Minstrel : — 221 " The i) loi ni on the east oriel* shone Through slender shafts of...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed...

...With base and capital furnish'd around, Secm'd bundies of lances which garlands had bound. * * » * The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldat have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot...

...trim, With base and with capital flourished around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliag'd tracery combin'd ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the...