...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined: Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hum), 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a...framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." But as I can neither talk of Melrose without spouting Scott's verses, nor...

...the Last Minstrel : " 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." Canto ii. St. 11. Ver. 11. My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls.] Sir Christopher...

...stately stone, By ioliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought, some fairy's hand "Twist poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spoil, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. Of the whole scene he thus...

...tracery combined : Thou wonldst hare thought some fairy's hand. 'TVixt poplars straight, the osier waud. In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the wock was.dooe, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." But as I can neither talk of Melrose without...

...moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. At the time- of the Reformation the inmates of this abbey shared in the general...

...aisle, has not been compelled to think of the wicker temples of the Saxons, and that some magician " 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot had tied, Then framed a spell when the work was done, That changed the willow wreath to stone ?" Among...

...tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought, some fairy's hand, "I'wixi 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. CHAPTER IX. WHEN Mrs. Martin and Captain Elliott arrived at Kelso, they went...

...slender shafts of shapely stone By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's bud Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work waa done, And changed the willow wreathe to stone. The silver light so...

...are so gracefully and airily enwreathed, that, in our moonlight imaginings, we might almost think " Some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot hath twined ; Then framed a spell, where the work was done, And changed the willow-wreathes to stone."...

...slender shafts of shapely stone By fulinge tracery combined ; Thou wouklst havo thought some fairy's 'Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then formed a spell, when the work waa done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. The silver light so...