...so beautifully refers, in his description of Melrose Abbey, in the Lay of the Last Minstrel : — " The moon on the east oriel* shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone By toliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the...

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

...book, lying on his breast in his grave — it is most unhappily out of time and place. " The moon in the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely...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...

...And thine, dark Knight of Liddesdale ! Oh fading honours of the dead ! Oh high ambition, lowly laid ! 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 twined ; Then framed...

...thine, dark Knight of Liddesdaln ! '• O fading honours of the dead ! O high ambition, lowly laid ! XI. thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes...townes and houses o1 honest men, and wandringin waste fairy's hand TwUt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...

...words to express the emotions which the contemplation of the window itself cannot fail to inspire : — The Moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, ' Twist poplar's straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then...

...trim, With base and with capital flourish'd around. Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...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...

...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...tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's haud T' wirt poplars itraight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed...

...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...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hiuid 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand The silver light so pale and faint, Show'd many...

...particular is 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 comhined : Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many...