Stolen Child (III), The

DESCRIPTION: "Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island...." "Come away, O human child, To the waters and the wild, With a faery, hand in hand." "Away with us he's going, The solemn-eyed" and will be seen no more
AUTHOR: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (source: Hoagland)
EARLIEST DATE: 1889 (The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, according to Wikipedia)
KEYWORDS: abduction magic separation | fairies island
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 179, "Away with us he's going" (1 fragment)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 594-596, "The Stolen Child"
Roud #37297
File: KSUC179

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