1500. The Little Elf by John Kendrick Bangs. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1500. The Little Elf

By John Kendrick Bangs


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	5
He looked me through and through.
“I ’m quite as big for me,” said he,
“As you are big for you,”