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High in the sky, high up there[br]The moon is laughing everywhere

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She has seen stranger, she has[br]Laughing and dancing way up there

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High in the sky, high up there[br]The moon is laughing everywhere

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She has seen stranger, she has[br]Laughing and dancing way up there

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She brings in the tide, sends us to sleep[br]We dream in her light and think awful deep

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Makes us loony with her mad tune[br]That only comes once in a true blue moon

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High in the sky, high up there[br]The moon is laughing everywhere

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She has seen stranger, she has[br]Laughing and dancing way up there

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High in the sky, high up there[br]The moon is laughing everywhere

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She has seen stranger, she has[br]Laughing and dancing way up there

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She brings in the tide, sends us to sleep[br]We dream in her light and think awful deep

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Makes us loony with her mad tune[br]That only comes once in a true blue moon

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High in the sky, high up there[br]The moon is laughing everywhere

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She has seen a stranger, she has[br]Laughing and dancing way up there

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The seal maiden woke to [br]hear a tapping on their door.

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The boy stood there, dripping seaweed,

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with mackerel bones in his teeth [br]and the smell of salt all around him.

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In his hands, he carried two sealskins, [br]one off-white, which was his own,

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and one of a dawn grey which [br]belonged to the seal maiden.

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"Come, quick, before the tide turns [br]and we're trapped here!" said the boy.

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Together, they ran for the surf,

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the seal maiden throwing off her clothes[br]as they stumbled over rocks and dunes.

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No one but the moon saw [br]them putting on their sealskins.

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She laughed and continued dancing. [br]She'd seen stranger, sure she had.

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When the seal maiden felt the first rush [br]of cold spray, she whooped and shrieked with joy.

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And when she saw, coming towards her[br]in swift, powerful motion, an old grey seal,

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she forgot how to swim for a moment,[br]went under, and came up crying, "Mother! Mother!"

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And there she was, Solanna the Elder,[br]older, battered by her many sea battles,

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but unmistakably [br]the seal maiden's mother.

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All night they swam, dove, [br]flipped themselves over,

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went after a shoal of salmon [br]and then of whiting

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and for dessert, a big congery leech.

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At last, exhausted and stuffed, [br]they paddled slowly to the cave

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to lie up on the wide [br]dark ledges to sleep.

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Just before he closed his eyes,[br]the seal boy asked the seal maiden,

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"How is my father?"

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"Don't think of him now," [br]the seal maiden answered

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for to tell the truth, she'd [br]been thinking of him herself.

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"I can't help it," answered the seal boy.

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"Your son will yearn the land[br]as you have yearned the sea,"

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Solanna the Elder said to the seal maiden.

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"I won't go back to the earth," [br]said the seal maiden.

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"No," said Solanna the Elder, "but you must[br]let the boy go when the time comes.

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He is half earth, and half sea. [br]Half boy, half seal.

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And you must give him safe passage [br]each time he wants to go ashore.

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"You must guard his sealskin [br]when he steps onto the sand

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and be there waiting with it for him [br]when he wants to return to the sea."

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"I will certainly do that,"[br]the seal maiden said, and she did

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and the seal boy went ashore sometimes[br]and lived among the people of the earth

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and spoke long into the[br]night with Red Brian, his father

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and went out fishing with him

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and there was always luck on[br]the catch when the seal boy was there.

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And the seal maiden would watch her son and [br]Red Brian to see they were safe and content

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and no harm came to them

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and then she would return east for the cave [br]and the company of Solanna the Elder

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and the mermaids and all her own kind.