Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
Sugarloaf Mountain, County Wicklow, Ireland
The drowsy water rats;
There we’ve hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland
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.
Sugarloaf Mountain, County Wicklow, Ireland
From William Butler Yeats’ The Stolen Child (1889)
