kilmeny kilmeny where have you been? lang hae we sought baith holt and dean by burn by ford by greenwood tree yet you are halesome and fair to see kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace but nae smile was seen on kilmeny's face as still was her look and as still was her e'e as the stillness that lay on the emerant lea or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea kilmeny had been where the cock never crew where the rain never fell and the wind never blew but it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung and the airs of heaven played round her tongue when she spoke of the lovely forms she had seen and a land where sin had never been a land of love and a land of light withouten sun or moon or night where the river swa'd a living stream and the light a pure and cloudless beam the land of vision it would seem a still an everlasting dream
kilmeny kilmeny where have you been? lang hae we sought baith holt and dean by burn by ford by greenwood tree yet you are halesome and fair to see kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace but nae smile was seen on kilmeny's face as still was her look and as still was her e'e as the stillness that lay on the emerant lea or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea kilmeny had been where the cock never crew where the rain never fell and the wind never blew but it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung and the airs of heaven played round her tongue when she spoke of the lovely forms she had seen and a land where sin had never been a land of love and a land of light withouten sun or moon or night where the river swa'd a living stream and the light a pure and cloudless beam the land of vision it would seem a still an everlasting dream
