"The Stolen Child" has many similarities with "Cat's in the Cradle" which includes the repetition of a stanza. Yeats states "Come away, O human child! To the water and the wild with a faery, hand and hand, for for the world more full of weeping than you can understand"(Yeats, 1). Chapin sings "And the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon, 'when you coming home dad?' 'I don't know when, but we'll get together then, you know we'll have a good time then.'"…
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