The Stolen Child By William Butler Yeats 1886,1889 Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leaafy island Where flapping herons wake The we've hid our faery vats, Full of berries And od reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the water 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 grey sands with light Far off by furthest Rosses We Foot it all the night, Weavingg 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 water and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Wherer the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car In pools among the rushes That scarce could bathe aa star, We seek for slumbering trout And whispering in their ears Give them unquiet dreams Learning 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 solemn-eyed He'll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Of 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 understand.