The Stolen Child

Lyrics for The Stolen Child

Come away, human child to the water Come away, 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 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 berries and of reddest stolen cherries Come away, human child to the water Come away, 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 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 is anxious in its sleep Come away, human child to the water Come away, 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 wandering water gushes from the hills above Glen-Car In pools among the rushes the scarce could bathe a star We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears We give them unquiet dreams; leaning softly out From ferns that drop their tears over the young streams 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 around and around the oatmeal-chest For he comes, the human child to the water He comes, the human child to the water and the wild With a faery, hand in hand from a world more full of weeping than he can understand Human child human child With a faery, hand in hand from a world more full of weeping than he can understand... than he can understand... he can understand...