Elfin Child

Our from the lawn...I saw,
A lively little fellow.
Now, he was neither red nor blue,
Or touched around...with yellow.

He tip-toed in the green, green grass,
I only caught a flash.
But here, and there, and everywhere,
You could see him dash.

He turned around upon his heel,
And slipped before my eyes.
And how he turned a summer-sault,
Was to me a great surprise.

He must of been an elfin-child,
I really didn't know.
The way he disappeared from sight,
Underneath the grass.

You had to look a certain way,
To know what he was on.
For if you chanced to look away,
It was for sure...he's gone.

E.P. 1908 - 1989