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 berries

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.

  在湖水那邊，

是史留斯料峭的高地，

那兒，一座綠蔭的小島上

蒼鷺振翅，驚醒了懨懨的河鼠；

那兒，我們在魔桶裡藏進了

滿滿的漿果，

還有偷來的紅艷艷的櫻桃。

來吧，人間的孩子，

到水邊和荒野裡來吧

和一個精靈手牽手吧

這世上哭聲太多，你不懂的。

 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,

From a world more full of weeping

than he can understand.

那個眼神莊重的孩子 

正和我們一起走著。

他再也聽不到溫暖的山坡上

牛犢的稚嫩的呼叫；也聽不到

水壺在爐子上的鳴叫，那聲音

曾安撫過他的心靈；

也聽不到了

老鼠圍著箱子的蹦跳——

因為他來了，人間的孩子

到水邊和荒野裡來了

和一個精靈手牽手了

這世上哭聲太多，你不懂的。