 | George Harris - 1849 - 540 pages
...beauties of which have been immortalized by the "Wizard of the North." " If thou would'st view Melrose aright Go visit it by the pale moonlight, For the...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...perplexed him sadly. It was the opening of one of the cantos : " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...beams of lightsome day, Gild but to flout the ruins gray," &c. In consequence of this admonition, many of the most devout pilgrims to the rain could not... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...equalled, by the edifices of any land."— Gazetteer of Scotland. If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the...beams of lightsome day Gild but to flout' the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel 2 glimmers white ; When the... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...The Lay of the Last Minstrel ^ *z (Melrose Abbey) CANTO SECOND I TF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, •*- Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For...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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Rivers - 1908 - 454 pages
...the disappointment of empty baskets. Sir Walter Scott says : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...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 moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1910 - 1016 pages
...day of his fatal overthrow at Flodden." According to Sir Walter: "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | 1910 - 1042 pages
...day of his fatal overthrow at Flodden." According to Sir Walter : "If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...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 moonlight, For the...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 leaves... | |
 | 1912 - 662 pages
...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... | |
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IF thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. 
