Oh where! oh where! is our faerie child,
All lost to us and living wild,
Oh where! oh where! did our child go,
He was sitting here just an hour ago.
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When he was here he was far away,
And we always said that he would not stay,
His mind was not on earthly things;
But far away on Faerie wings.
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Oh! Woe are we, our child is gone,
To the wilderness and beyond,
Where crystal streams of magic flow,
That is where our child did go.
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We weep for you, our little one,
For to the Faeries you have gone,
To the waters and the wild,
Forever more a Faerie child.
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Inspired by Mike Frawley and The Lost Child by W. B. Yates.
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