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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The seal maiden woke to 
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 
and the smell of salt all around him.

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

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

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"Come, quick, before the tide turns 
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
as they stumbled over rocks and dunes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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but unmistakably 
the seal maiden's mother.

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All night they swam, dove, 
flipped themselves over,

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went after a shoal of salmon 
and then of whiting

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and for dessert, a big congery leech.

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

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to lie up on the wide 
dark ledges to sleep.

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Just before he closed his eyes,
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," 
the seal maiden answered

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for to tell the truth, she'd 
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
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," 
said the seal maiden.

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

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He is half earth, and half sea. 
Half boy, half seal.

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

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

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

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

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

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and spoke long into the
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
the catch when the seal boy was there.

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And the seal maiden would watch her son and 
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 
and the company of Solanna the Elder

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and the mermaids and all her own kind.