Come
away, O human child!
By
W.B. Yeats
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 faery vats,
Full
of berrys
And
of reddest stolen cherries.
Come
away, O human child!
To
the waters and the wild
With
a faery, hand in hand.
For
the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where
the wave of moonlight glosses
The
dim gray sands with light,
Far
off by furthest Rosses
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
anxious in its sleep.
Come
away, O human child!
To
the waters and the wild
With
a faery, hand in hand,
For
the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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 faery, hand in hand,
For
the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away
with us he's going,
The
bright, but 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 faery, hand in hand
From
a world more full of weeping than he can understand
The poem was written in
1886 and was based on Irish legend concerning faeries beguiling a child to come
away with them.
The Stolen Child is
written by William Butler Yeats, and was published in 1889 in The Wanderings of
Oisin and Other Poems
During the episode ‘Small
Worlds’ only part of the poem was used, and seem to fit the faeries persona, to
lure away the child to the safety of the faerie kingdom.
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