...And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately,...imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die;1 When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, 1 The buttresses,...

...of lightsome day, Gild, but to flout, the ruins grey. When the broken arches are black in night, O i And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...beautiful description of Melrose Abbey by moonlight, from which I have just quoted, we read : — " When buttress and buttress alternately Seem framed...And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die." If you look at a good engraving of one of the many crosses erected by Edward 1., to perpetuate the...

...uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem formed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery....the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant sea is heard to rave. And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go— but go...

...Gild but to flout' the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel 2 glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower...the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress 3 , alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; ' Flout, to mock. ' Buttress, a mass of brickwork...

...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower: When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem'd framed of ebon and ivory: When...

...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, the chaise ; so yon most ride On horseback ; Wien distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go —...

...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 light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When...

...beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruin'd central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When...

...arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's unoertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress alternately r Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to...