The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-08
THE BROWN DWARF OF nuaEN.

AND IN the town oil kAmDln n ntllt DON anu nHlu
=. Pluckcd the meadow-Aowers together and in the
sea-suri played.
Alike We're they in beauty, II not in their degree
He was the Amptmen's frst'born, the inillers
child was she.
Now Of old the isle of Rugen was full Of Dwaris
The brown faced little Earthmen, the people with
out souls
And for every man and woman in Rugen's Island
Walking in air aud sunshine, Troll was under.
ground.
II CHANGED the little maiden one morning strolled
Among the haunted Nine Hills where the elves
and gobns play.
That day, In barley fields below, the harestes had
Of evil voices In the air and heard the small horns
blown.
She came not back; the search for her In field and
The, cried her cast they cried her west but she
came not again.
''Shes down among the Brown Dwnris" said the
dream wives wise and old.
And prayers were made, and said, and Rambns
Five years her father mourned her and then John
Twill find my little playmate be she alive or
dead"
He watched among the Nine Hills, he heard the
Brown Dwarfs sing
And saw them dance by moonlight merrily In a
ring.
And when their gay-Obed leader tossed up his cap
Young Dietrich caught 1t II fell, and thrust II on
his head.
The Troll came crouching at his feet and wcpt for
"oh, give me back my magic cap, for your great
head unfit"
"Nay," Dietrich said "the Dwarf who throws his
charmed cap away
Must serve It's finder at his WILL and for his folly
pay.
'You stole my pretty Lisbeth and hid her in the
And you shall ope the door Of glass and let me lead
her FORTH
'She will not come: she's one Of us; she's mine
the brown Dwarf said.
1.-THE day is set the cake is baked tomorrow we
shall wed" ,
"Thc fell Gend fetch theel" Dietrich cried, "and
keep thy foul tongue still.
Quick open, to thy evil world, the glass door Of
thehnll"
The Dwarf opened. and youth and Troll down the
loug stairway passed
And saw in dim and sunless lighta country strange
and vast
Weird rich aud wonderful, he saw the elnn under
Its palaces Of precious stones It's streets OF golden
Saud.
lie came into banquethall with tables richly
spread.
Where = young maiden served 10 him the red wine
aud the bread.
How .s!r shc seemed among the Trolls so ugly and
sowlld
Yet pale and very sonOwiul. like one who ncve'
smiled;
Her low, sweet voice her gold-brown hair, hei
tender blue eyes seemed
Like something ho had seen elsewhere or some
thing he had dreamed.
He looked: he claspcd her In his arms he knew
40 Lisbcth See thy paymAte-I am the Ampt
mans son"
She leaned her fair head his breast and through
her sobs she spoke,
'oh take nue. irOm this evil place and from the elfr
iUlH
And feel the soit wind on my check and hear III,
dropping nin
"And oh. to hear the singing bird, the rustling o
the tree.
The lowing cows the blent Of sheep, the voices o
the sca
"And on. upon my fathers knee TO ut beside tn
And hear the bells Of vespcn ring in Rambir
church once norc."
Hell ksed her cheek. he kissed her lips; the Browr
Dwarf groaned TO see,
: Aud tore his tangled hair and ground his lOnl
teeth ansnly.
But Dietrich aid For Eve long years this iende
Christian maid
she BE- Iaidi
.IIastc--hlihcr bring me precious gems the rich
at In your store;
Ihtn when We pas. The gate Of glass, you1l TAXI
NochoIcc was left the hanied Troll, and murmur
ing he obeycd.
lhc maid = ~ '''
They left the dreadful under.land and passed In
gate Of glass;
sofi, srccn Erls.
And when. beneath. they saw the Dwarf stretch NJ
Aud cracked claw.nke angcu, they tossed his ~,
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"A hand In hand they homrward walked An
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