...any NOTE. hand should be found barbarous enough to mutilate so beautiful a design. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold...

...under my influence. " 'And would'st thou view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by my pale clear light ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout...night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When my cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower. When buttress and buttress, alternately,...

...Man, After meet rest, again began. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. CANTO SECOND. I. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold...

...England, no one would visit it at that shadowless time of day. " If thou would'st view fair " Land's End aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight, For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the awesome sternness, even solemnity of the precipices and rocky headlands around. The ground at the actual...

...The Lay of the Minstrel is a metrical and rhymed description of the famous ruin : " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...moonlight ; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but do not flout, the ruins gray. 168 When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel...

...vividness of colour. And Melrose Abbey shows us the more benignant side of the night — If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight : For the gay beams of bright some day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each...

...sympathetic than Melrose to his fancy bridging, as with a rainbow, four hundred years : If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...at this relic of a bygone age, I could not help thinking of the poet's lines 1 : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...at this relic of a bygone age, I could not help thinking of the poet's lines l : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...at this relic of a bygone age, I could not help thinking of the poet's lines l : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seemed framed of ebon and ivory ; When...