Is ours, and shall be ever.

One Elf goes chasing the wild bat’s wing

And one the white owl’s horn;

One hunts the fox for the white o’ his tail,

And we winna hae him till morn.

One idle Fay, with the glow-worm’s ray,

Runs glimmering ’mong the mosses:

Another goes tramp wi’ the Will-o-wisps’ lamp,

To light a lad to the lasses.

Oh, haste, my brown Elf, bring me corn