Where dips the Rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake There lies a leafy island where flapping he
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 Faerie vats full of berries And of reddest stolen cherries Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a Faerie hand in hand For the world’s more full of weeping Than ye can understand… W.B. Yeats, The Stolen Child -- source link
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