...wo von der Norman- Abbey die Eede ist: But in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin-Mother of the God-born child, With her Son in her blessed arms, look'd round .... She made the earth below seem holy ground. This may be superstition, weak or wild, But even the...

...about the ruin, and balancing themselves upon every airy * " in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin Mother of the God-born child With her son in her blessed arms, looked round, Spared by some chance, when all beside was spoil "d : She made the earth below seem holy...

...to the Puritan mind, and its erection was made one of the chief articles in Laud's indictment : — The Virgin mother of the God-born child, With her son in her blessed arms look'd round. — Don Juan. Such a piece of work was indeed a bold stroke in face of the Protestant iconoclasm. Scarcely...

...irritation to the Puritan mind, and its erection was made one of the chief articles in Laud's indictment:— The Virgin mother of the God-born child, With her son in her blessed arms look'd round.—Don Juan. Such a piece of work was indeed a bold stroke in face of the Protestant iconoclasm....

...effect in another version of 'If this/Be but a vain belief": But in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin Mother of the God-born child, With her son in her blessed arms, look'd around, Spared by some chance when all beside was spoil'd; She made the earth below seem holy ground....

...resign or reign. But in a higher niche, alone, but crown'd, The Virgin-Mother of the God-born Child, 5o With her Son in her blessed arms, look'd round ; Spared...or wild, But even the faintest relics of a shrine 55 Of any worship wake some thoughts divine. A mighty window, hollow in the centre, Shorn of its glass...