Stolen Child Lyrics - Nights From The Alhambra - Loreena Mckennitt

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, 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. 

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses 

The dim grey sands with light 

By far off 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 

Whilst the world is full of troubles 

And is 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 

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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 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 

For the world's more full of weeping 

Than you can understand.