...passages, which instantly became popular : Description of Meinst Abbey. If thou wouklst view fair Melrosc many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their deca hut to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers...

...night struck with his dagger's hilt upon the wicket of the abbey. If thou wouldst view fair Alelrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Uild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel...

...'ll go to sea no more, No more, We 'll go to sea no more. Miss Corbett. Melrose Abbey. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; Tor the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black...

...of the Cathedral to his visitors. Sir Walter * Scott sings, in the opening lines of Canto ii of The Lay of the Last Minstrel : " If thou would'st view...Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." But it is doubtful whether he ever did lead his visitors to the Abbey at night. Bishop Oxenden, however,...

...soften down the rugged road of life. Kirlce WJiile. MELEOSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melroso aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight. For the gay beams of lightsome dny Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. Scott, Lay, n. 1. MEMORIALS. When all these shining leaves...

...to the grand old Abbey, of which his greater predecessor m fiction and poetry had said— "If thon would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to float, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;...

...one more quotation, even omitting those magnificent lines on Melrose Abbey, commencing with: — " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight," which displav both eloquence and true poetic genins. I do not believe any poet has ever painted a more...

...Arrangements are made to allow tourists to see the Abbey by moonlight, as recommended by Scott in the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel ' :— ' If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, GROUND PLAN OF MELROSE ABBEY GROUND PLAN OF DRYBURGH ABBEY ST MARYS AISLE MELROSE ABBEY CHURCHYARD....

...is wounded in hot blood. The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot. If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Thy secret keep ; I urge thee not; Yet, ere again ye sought this spot, Say, heard ye nought of Lowland...

...on Melrose would have been equally applicable to Bermondsey : " If thou wouldst view St. Saviour's aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, its ruins gray ; When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white,"...