Music: Kate Price
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 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
From ferns that drop their tears
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
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the worldβs more full of weeping than he can understand.