The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . THE LAY OF THE LAST MLXSTREL. 53. Which told the mystic hour, approachingnigh,When wise Cornelius promised by his artTo show to him the ladye of his heart,Albeit betwixt them roared the oceangrim;Yet so the sage had hight to play hispart,That he should see her form in life mark if still she loved and still shethought of him. XVII. Dark was the vaulted room of gramarye, To which the wizard led the gallant knight. Save that before a mirror, huge and high, A hallowed taper shed a glimmering light
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet; ed with a careful revision of the text . THE LAY OF THE LAST MLXSTREL. 53. Which told the mystic hour, approachingnigh,When wise Cornelius promised by his artTo show to him the ladye of his heart,Albeit betwixt them roared the oceangrim;Yet so the sage had hight to play hispart,That he should see her form in life mark if still she loved and still shethought of him. XVII. Dark was the vaulted room of gramarye, To which the wizard led the gallant knight. Save that before a mirror, huge and high, A hallowed taper shed a glimmering lightOn mystic implements of magic cross, and character, and talisman. And almagest, and altar, nothing bright;For fitful was the lustre, pale and wan,As watch-light by the bed of some departingman. XVIII. But soon, within that mirror huge andhigh,Was seen a self-emitted light to gleam ;And forms upon its breast the earl gan spy, Cloudy and indistinct as feverish dream;Till, slow arranging and defined, theyseemTo form a lordly and a lofty room, Part lighted by a lamp with silver by a couch of Agras sil
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