 | Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - English language - 1906 - 376 pages
...moonlight. MELHOSE BY MOONLIGHT If thou would'st 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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...a rainbow, four hundred years : If thou would' st 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. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold... | |
 | Lucia Ellen Barney Downing - Europe - 1907 - 210 pages
...showing the beauties of this spot. "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, its ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...rest, again began. Canto Second. IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the 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 When the cold light's uncertainshower Streams on... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Rivers - 1908 - 454 pages
...baskets. Sir Walter Scott says : — " If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the 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 the cold lights' uncertain shower... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...(Melrose Abbey) CANTO SECOND I TF thou would'st 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. 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
...WOULD'ST VIEW FAIR MELROSE ARIGHT IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight ; For the 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 the cold light's uncertain shower... | |
 | 1910 - 1042 pages
...Flodden." According to Sir Walter : "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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams... | |
 | Chautauquas - 1910 - 1016 pages
...Flodden." According to Sir Walter: "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 grey. When the broken arches are black in night. And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...3183 Rogers: To , MELROSE ABBEY. If thou would'st 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. 3184 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. St. 1. MEMORIALS. When all these shining leaves... | |
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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 grey. 
