Stolen Child (NFTA Live)
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
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
'Til 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
And 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
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
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
'Til 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
And 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
Credits
Writer(s): Loreena Mckennitt
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Other Album Tracks
- The Mystic's Dream (NFTA Live)
- She Moved Through the Fair (NFTA Live)
- Stolen Child (NFTA Live)
- The Mummer's Dance (NFTA Live)
- Penelope's Song (Live Edit) [Spanish Special Edition - Nights from the Alhambra]
- Marco Polo (NFTA Live)
- The Bonny Swans (NFTA)
- Dante's Prayer (NFTA Live)
- Caravanserai (NFTA Live)
- Bonny Portmore (NFTA Live)
Altri album
- The Mask And Mirror Live
- In Her Own Words: The Mask And Mirror
- The Road Back Home
- In Her Own Words: The Road Back Home
- In Her Own Words: The Road Back Home (Pt.2)
- In Her Own Words: The Road Back Home (Pt.1)
- Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór / Wild Mountain Thyme (Live in Goderich, Ontario / 2023)
- Under A Winter's Moon (Live At Knox Church, Stratford, Ontario / 2021)
- Under A Winter's Moon (Live At Knox Church, Stratford, Ontario 2021)
- Under a Winter's Moon (Live)
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