When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is... The Lands of Scott - Page 297de James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 508 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 pages
...alternately Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair! %obe of flatti1t (f ounlrj). From the Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI. BREATHES there the... | |
 | 1852 - 710 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls tliat teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, borne returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" window. Here, also, the heart of... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1852 - 318 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...but go alone the while — • Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" There •was no... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's gravef Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile: And, home returning,... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...fram'd of ebon and ivory ; When silver edge« the imagery, 564 365 And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlei to hoot o'er the de«d man'« grave ; Then go! — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1894 - 208 pages
...of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die;14 When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet...returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! Short halt did Deloraine make there; Little reck'd he of the scene so fair; With dagger's hilt,... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 pages
...alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls lhat teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave,...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! . . . The moon on... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1915 - 322 pages
...whom we cannot remember, that Scott had never visited Melrose by the moonbeam's silver light: — " When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave. But this observation regarding the poet is of no value, when we remember his intimacy with the grey... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1903 - 270 pages
...ruins by "the pale moonlight " and alluding to its churchyard, says : - — "When distant Tweed ia heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave." One summer evening as I stood on the bridge and listened to the water rushing ovelr the weir, a few... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...framed of ebon and Ivory ; When silver edges the Imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'erthe dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ;... | |
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