 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...sung, She kenn'd not where, sae sweetly it rung ; It fell on her ear like a dream of morn, " O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ; Now shall the land of the spirits see, Now shall it ken what woman may be. The sun that shines on the world sae bright, A borrow'd gleid1 frae the fountain of light... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 428 pages
...never may ken." They clasped her waist and her hands sae fair, They kissed her cheek, and they kemed her hair ; And round came many a blooming fere, Saying,...spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be ! Many lang year in sorrow and pain, Many lang year through the world we've gane, Commissioned to watch fair... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...She kend not where, but sae sweetly it rung, It fell on her ear like a dream of the morn. ' Oh, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the land of...spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be! The sun that shines on the world sae bright, A borrowed gleid frae the fountain of light; j And the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 518 pages
...welceme here 1 Women are freed of the littand scorn : — O, blessed be the day Ktlmeny was b«m ! Now shall the land of the spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be I Many lang year in sorrow and pain, M.-uiy lang year through the world we've gane, Commissioned to... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...but sae sweetly it rung, kyth] show, appear. It fell on the ear like a dream of the mom: ' O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the land of...spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be ! The sun that shines on the world sae bright, A borrow'd gleid frae the fountain of light; And the... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...rung, It fell on her ear like a dream of tha morn : — "O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Xow ose likeness with thy soul Was but its ! The sun that shines on the world sae bright, A borrowed gleid frae the fountain of light; And the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1902 - 1118 pages
...fere, Saying, ' Bonnie Kilmeny, ye're welcome here ! Women are freed of the littand scorn: O blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the land of...what a woman may be! Many a lang year, in sorrow and pin, Many a lang year through the world we've gane, Commission'd to watch fair womankind, For it's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...not where, but sae sweetly it rung, kne» It fell on her ear like a dream of the morn. ' Oh, blest cried) she tacks no more ! Hither to work us weal...Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with ! The sun that shines on the world sae bright, A borrowed gleid frae the fountain of light ; gleam... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...fere, Saying, " Bonny Kilmeny, ye 're welcome here ; Women are freed of the littand scorn ; O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the land of...sorrow and pain, Many a lang year through the world we 've gane, Commissioned to watch fair womankind, For it 's they who nurice the immortal mind. We... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 542 pages
...kend not where ; but sae sweetly it rung, It fell on her ear like a dream of the morn, — " O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born ! Now shall the land of...spirits see, Now shall it ken, what a woman may be ! The sun that shines on the world sae blight, A borrowed gleid frae the fountain of light ; And the... | |
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O, blest be the day Kilmeny was born! Now shall the land of the spirits see, Now shall it ken what a woman may be! 
