Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt， 1957年生，加拿大歌手、作曲家、鋼琴、豎琴手。
她的作品以濃厚的中東風格見稱，特別挑這兩首是比較沒有中東風的。


Penelope's Song




Penelope's Song
Artist:Loreena McKennitt


Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine-dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me

There like a bird I'd fly
High through the air
Reaching for the sun's full rays
Only to find you there

And in the night when our dreams are still
Or when the wind calls free
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me

Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine-dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine.
Till you come to me

The Stolen Child
Artist:Loreena McKennitt


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 fairy vats
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.


(Chorus#1)
Come away oh human child
To the waters and the wild
With a faery hand in hand
For the world's more full of weeping
Then he can understand


Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim grey sands with light
By far off 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
Whilst the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.

(Go to chorus #1)

Away with us he's going
The solemned eyed
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace unto 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
Then you can understand

聽不懂這些歌。我實在太老土了。
Do not understand these songs. I'm really so last year.

豎琴超好聽的~
fu很不錯
聽現場的一定更棒
感覺挺悠遠的
似乎在訴說著古老的言語

The Stolen Child 的歌詞
是諾貝爾文學獎得主
愛爾蘭詩人/（劇）作家
葉慈W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
於1889年所發表的同名詩作,
是他早期偏向浪漫主義時的作品。

葉慈的創作常由愛爾蘭神話中取材,
像這首詩的内容便是一則神話,
仙子誘領一群孩童跟隨她進入仙境,
因爲人間會讓這些孩子失去純真。

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 (he) can understand。

The loss of innocence
是葉慈在這首詩裏主要想表達的idea。

葉慈的墓誌銘也讓人印象深刻，
用的是他晚年詩作
"Under Ben Bulben" 的最後幾句：
Cast a cold Eye（投以冷眼）
On Life, on Death. (看生，看死)
Horseman, pass by. (騎士，策馬向前!)