Among the lost men was his own father!

HE FELL UPON HIS FACE

CHAPTER III
COME AWAY

"Come away, O human child!
To the woods and waters wild,
With a fairy hand in hand."

—W. B. Yeats

The sea had taken away Shaun's only loved one.

Shaun O'Day stood upon the banks of the little lake near his village. He stared out across the blue Irish lake. That morning his stepmother had beaten him.