Big trolls would roast you and small trolls would claw you;—
With us it were likewise, if only they dared.
The Old Man.
True enough; in that and in more we’re alike.
Yet morning is morning, and even is even,
And there is a difference all the same.—
Now let me tell you wherein it lies:
Out yonder, under the shining vault,
Among men the saying goes: “Man[“Man], be thyself!”
At home here with us, ’mid the tribe of the trolls,