Quotation by Oliver Herford

Sudden the wee Elf
Smiled a wee smile,

Tugged till the toadstool
Toppled in two.
Holding it over him
Gaily he flew.
Oliver Herford (1863–1935), poet. The Elf and the Dormouse (l. 15–20). . .

Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.
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