Stiffly stark ahd still they stood,
Clad in elfish clothes;
Some were wax, and some were wood,
One had crushed his hose.
"Playthings rare," he said and smiled,
For children rich and poor;
Some I'll leave the crippled child,
And some at the orphan's door."
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