 | William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - Authors, Scottish - 1903 - 66 pages
...Rhymer's Glen see page 20 Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair. Abbotsford may be called the centre of Sir Walter Scott's Country. Originally it was a small farm named... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - Europe - 1903 - 390 pages
...visit it by the pale moonlight; Then go, but go alone the while, To view Saint David's ruined pile. And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." But now we must take our departure, hoping some time to repeat our visit here, and go also to Burns'... | |
 | English poetry - 188? - 986 pages
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 | William Shillinglaw Crockett - Abbotsford - 1905 - 336 pages
...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...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! ' ' Rokeby,' as... | |
 | Rolf Boldrewood - Australian fiction - 1905 - 482 pages
...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 grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | WILLIAM SMITH, JR., W.S. CROCKETT - 1905 - 348 pages
...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 grave, Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - Birds - 1894 - 532 pages
...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...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! " Here is what... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1906 - 616 pages
...framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live night, When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead and die ; Then go—but go alone the while— Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; •And, home returning,... | |
 | Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - English language - 1906 - 376 pages
...thee live and die. ****** Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair ! — SCOTT. In the following quotations the writers refer to various color impressions. Select these... | |
 | Lucia Ellen Barney Downing - Europe - 1907 - 210 pages
...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...— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile; And home returning, soothly swear Was never scene so sad and fair." But, unwillingly,... | |
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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... 
