...combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand Twiit poplars straight the ozier wand, In mauy a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell,...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...

...as it were some fairy creation, and would justify the verse of Sir Walter, when he says : 'Тпои wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars...wand In many a freakish knot had twined ; Then framed н spell when the work was done, Aud changed the willow wreaths to stone.' Many of the Douglas family,...

...wouldst have thought some fairy hand, 'Twixt poplars straight, the ozier wand In many a freakish note had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone." 3* Under the spot where the high altar stood is the grave of Alexander II., of Scotland. Here also...

...shafts of shapely stone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's Land '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 !7' The beautifully...

...lowly laid ! 11. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone. By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some...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,...

...shapely stone. By follagcd tracery combined: Thou '.<. , iu ' I- 1 have thought some fairy's hand Twlxt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish...; Then framed a spell when the work was done. And clumped the willow wreaths to stone." The scene of Scott's novel of " The Monastery " is laid at Melrose...

...would'si have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight, the o/ier wand In many a freaking knot had twined ; Then framed a spell when the work...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.' As we walked over the graves of Alexander, Bruce, James and Douglas, we felt as if the cloistered spirits...

...stately stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some i,mi ' hand, "I « iM poplars straight, the osier wand In many a freakish...knot had twined; Then framed a spell when the work wus done, And changed the willow -wreaths to stone." A catalogue of old trees, the calendar kept by...

...t Corbells, the projections from which the arches spring, usually cut in a fantastic face, or mask. 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, Whose image on the glass...

...Melrose Abbey. 15. " The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely atone, By foliage tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some...was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone. 16. " The silver light, so pale and faint, Showed many a prophet and many a saint, "Whose image on...