...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...

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...the evening sky, is really surprising, — an idea of which is not unaptly given in these lines : " The moon on the .East oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone By foliaged tracery combin'd ; Thou woiild'st have thought some Fairy's hand Twixt poplars straight, the ozier ward In...

...With base and capital furnish'd around, Seem'd bundles of lances which garlands had bound. • * » . The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...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...

...all the striking parts of the building, so picturesquely described in the Lay of the last Minstrel. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender...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...

...all the striking parts of the building, so picturesquely described in the Lay of the last Minstrel. The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliated tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought, some fairy's hand, "I'wixi poplars straight,...

...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."...