Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. (William Butler Yeats)

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats

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