You are so wise!
“Tell me this sweet morn,
Tell me all you know—
Tell me, was I born?
Tell me, did I grow?”
The Legend of the Little Fay (Buchanan).
The Tarnkappe.
These dwarfs could transport themselves with marvelous celerity from one place to another, loved to conceal themselves behind rocks, and mischievously repeated the last words of every conversation they overheard. Owing to this well-known trick, the echoes were called dwarfs’ talk, and people fancied that the reason why they were never seen was because each dwarf was the proud possessor of a tiny red cap which made the wearer invisible. This cap was called Tarnkappe, and it was owing to it only that the dwarfs dared appear above the surface of the earth after sunrise without fear of being petrified.
“Away! let not the sun view me—
I dare no longer stay;