...late lamented bard, " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand In many a freakish knot had twined, Then framed...done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The Abbey Church is built in the form of a Latin cross, but the ground plan is not quite uniform, as the...

...east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldat have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight...a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, v hen the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone. At the time of the Reformation the...

...moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliag'd tracery combin'd ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt...poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish wreath had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone....

...shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stune, By foliag'd tracery eombin'd ; Thon wouldst have thuught some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish wreath had twin'd ; Then framed a spell when the work was done. And changed the willow wreaths to stone....

...inexhaustible variety of beautiful forms of open work. As Sir Walter Scott has beautifully described it — " Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." As the older masters often repeated their best pieces, the circumstance of there being two or three...

...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 wan done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone." Sir Walter says in a note, that it is impossible...

...foliated tracery combined; Thou would'st have thought some fai ry's, hand Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the woik was done, 1 Acd changed the willow- wreaths to stone." Sir Walter says in a note, that it is impossible...

...foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed...wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Show'd many a prophet and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his...

...foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst 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, Show'd many a prophet and many a saint,...

...shone "Throughstcndershaftsofshapety[Ae catled Hshapeless] stone " By foliaged tracery combined ; " Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand " Twixt...osier wand -• In many a freakish knot had twined, 1 - Then framed a spell when the work was done, " And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Then he...