...merely adding the description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; * In the drawing of Melrose Abbey in Slezer's...

...description which Sir Walter Scott has given of it in his Lay of the Last Minstrel. If thou.would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are dark in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; * In the drawing of Melrose Abbey in Slezer's...

...and harmonized, and thon shouldst feel God, always, every-where, and all in all. ON MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the rains gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When...

...in its- sentiments, affectionate, noble, and friendly in its thoughts and feelings. MELROSE ABBEY. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress...

...Encouraged thus, the aged man, After meet rest, again began. CANTO II. Ir tliou wouldst view fair Mel rose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the...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...

...increase the interest excited by a view of the remains of this Abbey in a very remarkable degree : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gny beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout the mins gray. When the broken arches are black in night,...

...have made all Europe acquainted with the beauties and manners of ancient Scotland. If thou woulcl'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the gay beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And...

...for not having gone purposely to inspect. But what said the poet of whom I have just been speaking? " If thou woulds't view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Now there was no moon during the week I was at Kelso; neither if there had, could I hare spared a day...

...Europe acquainted with the beauties and manners of ancient Scotland. If thou would'it view fair Melroie' aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of the lightsome day Gild but to flout the ruins gray. Whcil the broken arches are black ir; night, And...

...increase the interest excited by a view of the remains of this Abbey in a very remarkable degree : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit...are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress...