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To: Night Hides Not
Very well done...

While not confronting the tragedy of abortion as directly as your fine lyrics, I've found the following W.B. Yates poem a prophetic, if not subliminal indictment of the macabre practice...

The Stolen Child

WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
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.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
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.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scare could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
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.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
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.

-William Butler Yeats

I've had it on my home page for some time now..


3 posted on 03/01/2002 6:47:58 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack
VERY impressive home page. Thanks for your service, and of course, the poem!
7 posted on 03/01/2002 6:59:56 PM PST by Night Hides Not
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To: Joe 6-pack
VERY impressive home page. Thanks for your service, and of course, the poem!

Likewise, from BigStick. I lost one child the difficult way, and one son to God's way. But aren't all ways difficult ways? Two sons I still have, now grown men. Both were military, one a West Pointer and the other a USAFA graduate. The latter cross-commissioned into the Army with the 82nd Airborne and spent some time with the Rangers. The elder was an Abrams tanker. I see you, too, did some swingin' in the air!

Stay well, Joe.
17 posted on 03/01/2002 7:46:03 PM PST by BigStick
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