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 fairy vats
   Full of berries
   And of reddest stolen cherries.
  
   Come away oh 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 grey sands with light
   By far off 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
   Whilst the world is full of troubles
   And is anxious in its sleep.
  
   Come away oh 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 oh 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 solemned eyed
   He'll hear no more the lowing
   Of the calves on the warm hillside
   Or the kettle on the hob
   Sing peace unto 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 you can understand.