The Stolen Child

The Stolen Child (euskaraz Haur Lapurtua), 1889ko William Butler Yeats irlandar olerkariak The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (Oisinen Harat-Honatak eta Beste Poemak) idazlanean argitaratutako olerki bat da.

1988an The Waterboys eskoziar-irlandar rock-folk musika taldeak olerkiaren hitzak hartuz abestia egin eta Fisherman's Blues diskoan argitaratu zuen. Abestiaren hasieran olerkia irakurtzen duen gizonaren ahotsa Connemara eskualdeko Tomás Mac Eoin irlanderazko olerkari eta sean-nós abeslariarena da.

Hitzak 
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 faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
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.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light,
Far off by 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,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
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.

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, 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.

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
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 he can understand.

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Irlandako olerkiak
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1988ko abestiak