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...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 changed the willow-wreaths to stone.' " So much for the general effect of this fine edifice upon a mind peculiarly...

...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...And changed the willow wreaths to stone." .• The original beautifully fretted and sculptured stone roof of the east end of the chancel is still standing,...

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...foliagcd 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...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." Sir James Hall, however, was the great champion of this opinion, and wrote a volume to explain, illustrate,...

...arches, which seem as if " Some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand, In many a prankish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone-" Those beauties of England's Gothic churches, as well as the more chaste and simple, and yet more enduring...

...comparison of the tracery of Melrose Abbey to the work of a fairy, entwining willows and flowers, who " Framed a spell when the work was done And changed the willow wreaths to stone." The hill, on the other side of which the town of Kabul abuts, rose bold and rocky behind, with a summer-house,...

...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...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." SCOTT. Why, then, class among hase imitations the exquisite copies of stonework forms, in the equally,...

...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...wreaths to stone. The silver light, so pale and faint, Shewed many a prophet, and many a saint, Whose image on the glass was dyed ; Full in the midst, his...

...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 the willow-wreathes to...