...view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so nad and fair ! He cannot cure every vice by substitutirig ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And...

...fancy is analogous to fact, does not impair the pleasure of the mind in rememhering the hour when " The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery comhined. Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, Twixt poplars straight the osier...

...with that of many a heroic Douglas,* and where " Througb slender shafts of shapely stone, By foilaged tracery combined, Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; , Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed...

...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...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...

...a more beautiful specimen of the lightness and elegance of Gothic architecture, when in its purity, By foliaged 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 a spell, when the work was done, And...

...this occasion than dull prose — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of stately stone, By foliaged tracery combined : Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twist poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed a spell when...

...beautiful specimen of Gothic architecture, has been most touchingly portrayed by the same pen : — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...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...

...Save where the beetle winds his dusky flight, And drowsy I inklings lull the distant folds." GRAY. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone." SCOTT. WHEN John Armstrong came down to breakfast the next morning, he found the coffee-room nearly...

...to flames. This kind of tracery is beautifully described by Sir Walter Scott. " The moon on the vast oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone,...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...

...Walter Scott in his " Lay of the Last Minstrel," occasioned by a moonlight scene at Melrose, — " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts...shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou %vould'st have thought some fairy's hand Twilt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish...