The moon passed out of Holyrood, white-lipped, to open sky; The night wind whimpered on the Crags to see the ghosts go by; And stately, silent, sorrowful, the lonely lion lay, Gaunt shoulder to the Capital and blind eyes to the Bay. WILL H. OGILVIE. There are two Holyroods--Holyrood Abbey, dating back to the twelfth century, and founded by David I.; and Holyrood House, the palace of the Stuarts, dating from fully three centuries later. The Abbey had always contained royal apartments, and had been a place of royal residence in turn with the Castle; and so it was natural that the tradition should be retained, and the royal palace built in connection with the splendid old Abbey. Of the once great and wealthy Abbey of Holyrood only a ruined fragment remains, open to the sky; and of the palace only part of the large sixteenth-century royal residence remains, included in a smaller seventeenth-century building. [Illustration: EDINBURGH FROM THE CASTLE In the foreground of the picture are the embrasured battlements of the Argyle Battery, at the end of which, over the steps, rises the spire of Tolbooth Church. On a lower level of the Castle, to the spectator’s left, is an iron cage used for beacons. Above this cage and facing the Mound are the Royal Institution and National Gallery, and immediately above the latter is the Scott Monument. The row of trees fronting the tall buildings denote the position of Princes Street running east towards Calton Hill, which appears crowned by the Nelson Monument and backed by the Firth of Forth exactly in the centre of the picture. To the right of Calton Hill on the distant horizon appears the Bass Rock, to the left the coast of Fife with a portion of the island of Inchkeith.]