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John Wall Callcott - Melrose - текст песни (слова)

From "Lay of the last Minstrel: the Ride to Melrose", Canto II, stanza I
 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 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 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 sad and fair!
 Note: lines in brackets not part of the musical setting.   
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