It’s my birthday today(67) and I’m giving my gifts to the children, and posting this song for “The Lost Children” suffering in our world
“”The Stolen Child” was released in 1988 on The Waterboy’s album, Fisherman’s Blues. The song includes lyrics by Yeates and a beautiful lilting melody….making for one of my favorites on an album chocked full of classic Waterboys tunes! The lyrics are mystical and strange…it’s lovely the way they string together….how amazing are the images and flow of this poem? Remastered audio! The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats’s more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry in 1888 and Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland in 1892. The places mentioned in the poem are in Leitrim and Sligo where Yeats spent much of his childhood.” Taken from the information attached to the below video
The Waterboys – The Stolen Child, Lyrics
Come away human child to the water
Come away human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake
There lies the 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, human child to the water
Come away, human child to the water 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 roses, 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, chase the frothy bubbles
While the world is full of troubles and is anxious in it’s sleep
Come away, human child to the water
Come away, human child to the water 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
And pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star
We seek for slumbering trout and whispering in their ears
We give them unquiet dreams
Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams
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 around and around the oatmeal chest
For he comes, the human child to the water
He comes, the human child to the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than you can understand
Human child, human child
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than you can understand
Than you can understand, you can understand
Happy Birthday again Ivor. I hope you’re still partying.
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☼ Happy Birthday! ☼
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Happy Birthday Ivor. 🎂
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Thanks Adnama xx
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You are Welcome Ivor. 🙂👍💚
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Absolutely beautiful — Happy Birthday 😉
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Thank you Vanessa xx
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Happy Birthday dear friend and poetry brother! Thank yiu for this song, it is wonderful and the way ut incorporated the poem by Yeats was awesome!
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Thanks Walt, you’re a grand friend.
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‘Tis my pleasure Ivor!
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Blessed birthday Ivor!
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Happy birthday, ye mad poet. 🙂
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Thanks mate 😉
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Hippy Bathday, Ivor …
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Thank you David…. Hugs…. 😆
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wow lovely flow and great incorporation … interesting way to recreate a golden oldie … keep partying!
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Hi Kate, I just found this one in my spam, thanks for the lovely comments ☺️💛
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ah sadly WP claim I make too many comments and that’s how they get spammed … difficult to change my ways to fool these idiot AI machines!
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Ahh, I understand now, so that’s why some of my comments end up in spam
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yes post too many and they become spam … I have warned readers but many think its a joke 😦
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Yes, I’ve warned my readers too. 😊
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Happy Birthday!
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Thank you ❤️ Audrey xx
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Happy Birthday Ivor!!
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Thank you ❤️ Kayla xxx
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Happy Birthday, Ivor! Your beautiful heart penned a lovely poem that reads like a ballad. May your b-day candles light the way for all left in the dark! xo 🎂
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Happy Birthday Ivor, hope you’re having a lovely day. 😊🎂
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Wow, you’re a Cancerian too! Happy birthday form one crab to another xxx That’s a beautiful poem/song you posted
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Thank you ❤️ Raili xx
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Happy anniversary of bursting forth into this crazy word!! Would not be the same without you!!
I bought that album! Absolutely loved it! Thanks for the reminder 🌸🍰
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Thank you ❤️ Vanessa 💛🤗🤗💝
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🤗🤗❤️🎉
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Happy Birthday, again, my friend!!! 🙂 I’m so glad your mother birth-ed you! 🙂
Keep pushing forward! Keep writing your poems! Keep smiling!
67 is the new 32! 😉 😀
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More Birthday HUGS!!! 🙂
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Thanks again Carolyn ❤️🤗🤗
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Happy birthday dear Ivor from the deep of my hearth wishing you all the best .❤️🎂
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Thank you ❤️ Ortensia, xx
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Happy birthday 😁
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Thank you ❤️ Sanskriti xx
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A beautiful post for a lovely man’s birthday
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Happy birthday dear ivor xx
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Thank you ❤️ Soiba xx
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Happy birthday again, Ivor dearest! I hope you had a great day!
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I’ve had a great day, thank you ❤️ xx
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😘🖤
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Hope you had a great day Ivor. Good night, and may your dreams be all sweet ones.
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Thank you Peter, I shall be snoring heavily and sleeping soundly 😴😴
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THAT BEAUTIFUL BOY!!!!
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The pic is nearly 60 years ago, and the lovely cocker spaniel was Jet, 😊💛
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Ivor and Jet. It is a fabulous picture. You were as beautiful then as you are now!
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😊 Thanks 💖I’m blushing again. 😊
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😀 Which means there is that dimple 🙂
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MY FRIEND!!! I hope you at least did something fun! That is a wonderful picture of you and your pup! ❤ 🎈🎁🎂🍺💝
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Haha, the pic is nearly 60 years ago 😀
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Is that a bad thing? I love old pictures. And I KNOW what it feels like t be 67! Me, too! LOL It feels creaky!
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Lol, creaky is the word 😉🙄
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Happy birthday Ivor!❤🎉🎉 Wish you all the best! We have a same birthday month😁
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Thank you ❤️ Eltrissa, that’s nice, having the same birthday month. 😊
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Yeats is my favourite poet, i love all his poems, this one is among the most touching ones. thank you for writing this tribute to the children and mentioning the poet i love so much.
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