The Little Elf

by John Kendrick Bangs English

I met a little Elf-man, once,   Down where the lilies blow. I asked him why he was so small   And why he didn’t grow. He slightly frowned, and with his eye   He looked me through and through. “I ’m quite as big for me,” said he,   “As you are big for you,”

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