And round came many a blooming Fere,
Saying, “Bonny Kilmeny, ye’re welcome here!
Women are freed of the littand scorn:
O, blessed be the day Kilmeny was born!
Now shall the land of the spirits see,
Now shall it ken what a woman may be!
Many a lang year in 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.