Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Whitacre: The Stolen Child, artist - Eric Whitacre. Album song Light & Gold, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 31.12.2009
Record label: Decca, Universal Music Operations
Song language: English
Whitacre: The Stolen Child |
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 scare 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 he can understand. |
William Butler Yeats, 1865−1939 |