 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...And the scrolls that teach thce to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the howlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but...view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. * * • * By a steel-clench 'd postern door, They enter'd... | |
 | Robert Walsh - United States - 1837 - 504 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach tbee to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair !" The... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...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...view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair." The second couplet has no business there — and forcibly... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. W. Lake - Poetry - 1838 - 496 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and (fie-j When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the whileThen view Saint David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...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...view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! LESSON LVIII. The Set of Diamonds. 1. MR. E , a physician... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ;-' When distant Tweed is heard ? Z 5r : t2 Q 4 I$Of= ȹ ڶ H!GP 57 x ,F PF ; c G: v ͎ ? n A , Һ ` >! U" A/ y I ruin'd pile ;' And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II. Short halt... | |
 | Abbeys - 1841 - 240 pages
...scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When the distant tweed is heard to rave. And the how let to hoot o'er the dead man's grave ; Then go — but...view St David's ruined pile ; And home returning, soothly swear Was never seen so sad and fair. By a steel clenched postern door, They entered now the... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thec to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! » * * * The pillar'd... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1842 - 598 pages
...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...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! " Within the Abbey... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...thee to live and die;T When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man 8 grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ;t And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair! II. Short halt... | |
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And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; 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... 
