The ADVENTURES of an Elf. — A picture poem for the little ones

By Fedor Flinzer. Freely translated by J.H. Ewing.

I.

Dear children, listen whilst I tell
What to a certain Elf befell,
Who left his house and sallied forth
Adventure seeking, south and north,
And west and east, by path and field,
Resolved to conquer or to yield.
A thimble on his back he carried,
With a rose-twig his foes he parried.