ELFLAND BY MOONLIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 17

ELFLAND BY MOONLIGHT.

Merrily frolic 'the tiny elve's , Down in the moonlit valleys— , Piping wee folk-songs all. to themselves As they trip through the glowworm-lit alleys. ' ■ Come, let us watch them Between the long grasses, Gaily coquetting By light of the moon. Wee little laddies ' _ .■ Wee little lassies, , All moving in. time To a fairyland tune. See them skip on mushroom topg, Kound the fairy-rings Dance in elf land minuet, Swing on grass-blade swings! Hark, they are singing Love stories brought them . Out of the dreamland When, earth was yet young. Dear little ditties From laddies to lassies, While chiming in concord ' Sweet elf-bells are rung. Happily they revel on • While the world is sleeping, There a moment and then ,gone, . Out of moss-cups peeping. Love we to think of- them Playing and dancing Down the green hollows 'Neath light of the moon. Dear little folk .-,;■. (Whether facts, or just fancies) They come in quaint visions. And vanish too soon. G. Carwell Cobke.