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.

W. B. Yeats, from “The Stolen Child” (thanks, jenzhan)
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Posted by crispnotebook
∞  October 01, 2011
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