Crossword-Solution: GRANDAMES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And there was such a solemn melody, ’Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.

Old men were there, Whose eyes were dim And senses failing— Grandames, who might have died ten years ago, And still been old—the deaf, the blind, the lame, The palsied, The living dead in many shapes and forms, To see the closing of this early grave.

Under that porch, where she had sat when Heaven In mercy brought her to that peaceful spot, She pass’d again, and the old church Received her in its quiet shade.” Throughout the whole of the above, only two unimportant words have been omitted—_in_ and _its_; and “grandames” has been substituted for “grandmothers.” All that remains is exactly as in the original, not a single word transposed, and the punctuation the same to a comma.

Just sixteen years ago there happened in the circle of Tornow, in Western Galicia-the province is divided into nine circles-a circumstance which will probably furnish the grandames with a story for their firesides, during their bitter Galician winters, for many a long year.

Then was the maid in her grandames beanes, and knew not what should become of her: I heard the Pope tooke pitie on her, and because her trespasse was not voluntary but chancemedly, he assigned her no other punishment but this, to drinke out the rest of the poyson in the glasse that was left, and so goe scot-free.