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Where dips the rocky highland
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Of Sleuth Wood in the lake
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There lies a leafy island
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Where flapping herons wake
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The drowsy water-rats
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There we've hid our faery vats
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Full of berries
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And of reddest stolen cherries

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Come away, O human child
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To the waters and the wild
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With a faery, hand in hand
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For the world's more full of weeping
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Than you can understand.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses
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The dim grey sands with light
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By far off furthest Rosses
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We foot it all the night
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Weaving olden dances
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Mingling hands and mingling glances
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Till the moon has taken flight
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To and fro we leap
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And chase the frothy bubbles
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Whilst the world is full of troubles
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And is anxious in its sleep.

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Come away, O human child
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To the waters and the wild
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With a faery, hand in hand
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For the world's more full of weeping
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Than you can understand.

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Where the wandering water gushes
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From the hills above Glen-Car
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In pools among the rushes
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That scarce could bathe a star
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We seek for slumbering trout
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And whispering in their ears
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Give them unquiet dreams
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Leaning softly out
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From ferns that drop their tears
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Over the young streams

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Come away, O human child
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To the waters and the wild
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With a faery, hand in hand
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For the world's more full of weeping
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Than you can understand.

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Away with us he's going
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The solemn-eyed
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He'll hear no more the lowing
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Of the calves on the warm hillside
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Or the kettle on the hob
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Sing peace into his breast
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Or see the brown mice bob
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Round and round the oatmeal chest.

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For here comes, O human child
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To the waters and the wild
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With a faery, hand in hand
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For the world's more full of weeping
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Than you can understand.

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