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The wood was sere , the mbon i' the wane , The reek o * the cot hung o ' er the plain , Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane ; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme , Late , late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame . ' ( pp . 176 , 177 ) Her mother then questions her , tut we must deny ourselves , and there is some merit in doing so . How exquisite is what
follows!—4 Kilmeny looked up with a lovely grace , But nae smile was seen on Kilmeny ' s face ; As still was her look , and as still was her ee , As the stillness that lay on the emerant lea , Or the mist that sleeps on a waveless sea . For Kilmeny had been she knew not where , And Kilmeny had seen what she could not declare ; 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 spake 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 celestial beam : The land of visions it would seem , A still , an everlasting dream . '—p . 178 .
The immortal beings among whom she becomes a sojourner , meet her with a welcome , of which the spirit is as elevating as the language is affecting and unpretending . It implies indeed a stricture which it were misery not to believe to be unjust ; but we pardon all , for the sake of the lofty and practical moral . If the eye of one young female should rest upon these pages , let her linger over the following lines ( as toe do over the whole , < for the sake o auld
lang syne , ' ) and ask her own beating heart why she should not be another Kilmeny , as holy and yet as human ^ —uniting the purity of the saint with the tenderness of the woman ? Let her attempt it , and she will not tvholly fail . We believe it is Lant Carpenter who uses ( and exemplifies ) the maxim , 6 There is a great deal in that little word try . But—to the verses .
* O , would the fairest of mortal kind Aye keep the holy truths in mind , That kindred spirits their motions see . Who watch their ways with anxious ee . And grieve for the guilt of humanitye ! O , sweet to Heaven the maiden ' s prayer , And the sigh that heaves a bosom sae fair !
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624 On the Connexion between Poetry and ReligiorL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/48/
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