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The Stolen Child
By
W. B. Yeats
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HOME
Guest Book
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL II
Musical Credits
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Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water-rats;
There we've hid our fairy vats,
Full of berries
And of the reddest stolen
cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of
weeping
Than you can understand.
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Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of
weeping
than you can understand.
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Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Roses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances,
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of
troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand.
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Away with us he's going,
The solemn eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm
hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the
oatmeal-chest.
For he comes, the human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
From a world more full of
weeping
than he can understand.
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