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Stolen Child

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.