The Stolen Child

[ti:The Stolen Child] [ar:WonderBoys] [al:Fisherman's Blues] [by:季风网-【http://www.ip21.cn】] [offset:0] The Stolen Child - WonderBoys 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 the 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 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 chase the frothy bubbles While the world is full of troubles and is anxious in it's 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 And pools among the rushes that 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 you can understand Human child human child With a faery hand in hand From a world more full of weeping than you can understand Than you can understand you can understand