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Saint Patrick ☘ ([info]shamrocked_) wrote,
@ 2010-11-29 02:16:00

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Current mood: pensive
Entry tags:*neil, apt poetry is apt, death of innocence, yeats

Farewell, Neil.


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 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 he can understand.


-William Butler Yeats


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[info]shallnotmove
2010-11-28 02:01 pm UTC (link)
I'm so sorry, Patrick. Neil is in my prayers.

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[info]shamrocked_
2010-11-28 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, Aggie. And thank you for your presence in the hospital last night. You were sure a comfort.

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[info]shallnotmove
2010-11-28 02:08 pm UTC (link)
Anything for you, my Patrick.

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[info]shamrocked_
2010-11-28 02:11 pm UTC (link)
And you know I would do anything for you as well, Aggie.

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[info]famedhistory
2010-11-29 04:59 am UTC (link)
Technically it's about Fae taking children, not a mourning poem.

Smooth.

My condolences.

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