[ti:Kilmeny] [ar:The Mediaeval Baebes] [al:Mirabilis] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Kilmeny - Mediaeval Baebes [00:10.26]Written by:Katharine Blake/Ruth Galloway/James Hogg [00:20.53]Kilmeny kilmeny where have you been [00:24.56] [00:25.33]Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean [00:30.11]By burn by ford by greenwood tree [00:34.69] [00:35.36]Yet you are halesome and fair to see [00:39.50] [00:40.64]Kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace [00:45.01]But nae was a smile seen on kilmeny's face [00:50.04]As still was her look and as still was her e'e [00:55.22]As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea [01:00.15]Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea [01:04.78] [01:20.72]Kilmeny had been where the cock never crew [01:25.21]Where the rain never fell and the wind never blew [01:30.22]But it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung [01:35.11]And the airs of heaven played round her tongue [01:40.19]When she spoke of the lovely forms she had seen [01:45.14]And a land where sin had never been [01:50.29]A land of love and a land of light [01:55.20]Withouten sun or moon or night [02:00.43]Where the river swa'd a living stream [02:05.24]And the light a pure and cloudless beam [02:09.98] [02:10.54]The land of vision it would seem [02:15.32]A still an everlasting dream [02:20.06] [02:20.87]Yet you are halesome and fair to see [02:32.37] [02:33.50]Kilmeny kilmeny where have you been [02:38.37] [02:39.71]To a land of love heart to a selver see [02:45.41] [02:50.22]Kilmeny kilmeny where have you been [02:54.33] [02:55.14]Lang hae we sought baith holt and dean [02:59.77]By burn by ford by greenwood tree [03:04.38] [03:05.16]Yet you are halesome and fair to see [03:09.31] [03:10.22]Kilmeny look'd up wi' lovely grace [03:14.84]But nae was a smile seen on kilmeny's face [03:19.78]As still was her look and as still was her e'e [03:24.81]As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea [03:29.89]Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea