...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...gay 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...

...remains, in which is an immense window, with the mullions entire, and tracery broken. " If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...gay 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...

...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 the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When...

...SIB W. SCOTT (The Lady of the Lake). 803. IF THOU WOULD'ST VIEW FAIR MELROSE ARIGHT IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...gay 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...

...round James IV on the day of his fatal overthrow at Flodden." According to Sir Walter: "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...gay 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...

...James IV on the day of his fatal overthrow at Flodden." According to Sir Walter : "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by the pale...gay 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...

...in melancholy. I would not, if I could, be gay I 3183 Rogers: To . MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale...gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 3184 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. St. 1, MEMORIALS. When all these shining...

...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...