...re«t to hear. Encouraged thus, the Aged Man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO SECOND. I. IP thnu would'st view fair Melrose aright,* Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the Ray beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, ibe nuns gray. When the broken arches ore black in night,...

...world to converse with the spirit of past times, in the ruins of Melrose Abbey :— ' If you would view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray.' And surely if Melrose, with all the associations of romantic history clinging to its relicts,...

...Was carried by an orphan boy. . . . Again, there is his description of Melrose Abbey: — If Iliou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. Where the broken arches are blank in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold...

...example, making free use of the four-beat verse among the four-bar verses in their narrative poems; cp. : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to ilout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white;...

...Abbey, the "ruin'd pile" which Scott describes most memorably in the first verse-paragraph of Canto II: If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day (jild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel...

...tall rock with lichens grey, / Seem'd dimly huge the dark Abbaye.'; and Canto Second. Stanza 1: "1f thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit...moonlight; / For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild, hut to flout, the ruins grey. / When the broken arches are black in night, / And each shafted oriel...

...the stem joy which warrlors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. 10022 The Lay of the Last Minstrel \ z } - 10023 The Lay of the Last Minstrel They waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. 1 0024 The...

...ruins by moonlight, and produced probably the most quoted ruin tag in English in the entire century: "If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, / Go visit it by the pale moonlight.'" 4 The verse that follows the familiar couplet explicitly turns Melrose Abbey from a ruined building...

...stained glass of Melrose Abbey features earlier in The Lay. Canto II begins with advice to tourists: 'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,/ Go visit it by the pale moonlight'. Stained glass is translucent, and the Melrose moonlight casts a light more picturesque than religious:...

...dead are more powerful than the living. The scene is set in Scottian terms, and Connal even quotes 'If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, go visit it by the pale moonlight'. He, Armida, and Wandesford, her English fiance, all visit the island and are nearly drowned on their...