Much as I have enjoyed Loreena McKennitt’s music I somehow missed her first album, "Elemental," until recently. It has a haunting song using as lyrics William Butler Yeat’s poem "Stolen Child." This is the chorus:
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.
The rest of the poem is here, and a somewhat echoey YouTube version. The original is better.
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Impatiently awaiting the fall release of this new Loreena McKennitt collection, so going periodically here for temporary fixes, reminders of why I’m waiting.
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YouTube keeps promising that Moveable Type will get the ability to implant their videos on the page, but it hasn’t happened yet. Meanwhile, go to HillBilly White Trash for this lovely Loreena McKennitt video. We played her last Celtic studio album, "Book of Secrets," so many times at the Rancho that we wore the little dots off the CD and had to get another one. This new one, "An Ancient Muse," sounds so good I ordered one at Amazon which has another built-in performance video. Enjoy.
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