 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...When silver edge« the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed nsequence of such a miraculous transformation of mank man'» grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile ; And, home returning,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...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, Was never scene so... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...When silver edges the imagery. And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed \s 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, Was never scene so... | |
 | Aleksander Przezdziecki - Sweden - 1845 - 276 pages
...When silver edges the imagery. And the serolls 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 — bnt go alone the while — Then view St- David's ruin'd pile; And, home returning, soothly swear,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...When silver edges the infagery, 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, 1 The buttresses, ranged along the sides of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, are, according to the Gothic... | |
 | John Walker Ord - Cleveland (England) - 1845 - 434 pages
...imagery, And the scrolls that teach us to live or die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owl 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, Was never scene,... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...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 Was never scene so... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...When silver edges the imagery, Aud 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, sootb.lv swear, Was never scene... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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, Was never scene so... | |
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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 heard... 
