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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)
“Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Changelings, The Stolen Child (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))
The refrain of Yeats's own poem, in which the fairies lure a child away from a world of sorrow.
Citation: "Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Changelings, The Stolen Child (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q4)
Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
