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W. B. Yeats
The Stolen Child
(01) 01 : Where dips the rocky highland
02 : Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
03 : There lies a leafy island
04 : Where flapping herons wake
05 : The drowsy water rats;
06 : There we've hid our faery vats,
07 : Full of berrys
08 : And of reddest stolen cherries.
09 : Come away, O human child!
10 : To the waters and the wild
11 : With a faery, hand in hand,
12 : For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
(02) 13 : Where the wave of moonlight glosses
14 : The dim gray sands with light,
15 : Far off by furthest Rosses
16 : We foot it all the night,
17 : Weaving olden dances
18 : Mingling hands and mingling glances
19 : Till the moon has taken flight;
20 : To and fro we leap
21 : And chase the frothy bubbles,
22 : While the world is full of troubles
23 : And anxious in its sleep.
24 : Come away, O human child!
25 : To the waters and the wild
26 : With a faery, hand in hand,
27 : For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
(03) 28 : Where the wandering water gushes
29 : From the hills above Glen-Car,
30 : In pools among the rushes
31 : That scare could bathe a star,
32 : We seek for slumbering trout
33 : And whispering in their ears
34 : Give them unquiet dreams;
35 : Leaning softly out
36 : From ferns that drop their tears
37 : Over the young streams.
38 : Come away, O human child!
39 : To the waters and the wild
40 : With a faery, hand in hand,
41 : For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
(04) 42 : Away with us he's going,
43 : The solemn-eyed:
44 : He'll hear no more the lowing
45 : Of the calves on the warm hillside
46 : Or the kettle on the hob
47 : Sing peace into his breast,
48 : Or see the brown mice bob
49 : Round and round the oatmeal chest.
50 : For he comes, the human child,
51 : To the waters and the wild
52 : With a faery, hand in hand,
53 : For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.