...would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell, when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' The carved figures and heads which abound throughout the ruin are many of them very curious. There...

...Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and fault, Show'd many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass...

...would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths, tP atone," Melrose Abbey was founded by David I., of Scotland, somewhere in the year 1136. The English...

...fairy's hand *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 !" The beautifully fretted stone roof over the east end of the nave still remains, springing skyward...

...would' st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass...

...'Hum wouldst have thought some fairy hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." * Through the smaller windows, also, on the east, the moon's rays streamed, throwing on the opposite...

...Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work...was done, And changed the willow- wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass...

...eastern window looks " As if some fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight the ozler wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to etone." Returning to Edinburgh, we had a fresh interest in studying out ita antiquities,...

...Thou wouldsthavc thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wound In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." Snow Hill is the name of another very beautiful stalagmite of nearly equal...

...wrought stone into such forms, or rather that some fairy had twined ozier wands through poplars — " Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreath to stone." But everybody has the beautiful and weird scene at Melrose in the " Lay of the Last...