1939
A Midget
Composed by 
Theodore Chanler
Theodore Chanler Text by 
Walter De la Mare
Walter De la Mare Eight Epitaphs Song Collection
"A Midget" is the fifth song of Theodore Chanler's song cycle Eight Epitaphs, which sets the text of Walter de la Mare.
Text
A Midget
by Walter de la Mare
Just a span and half a span
From head to heel was this little man.
Scarcely a capful of small bones
Raised up erect this Midget once.
Yet not a knuckle was askew;
Inches for feet God made him true;
And something handsome put between
His coal-black hair and beardless chin.
But now, forsooth, with mole and mouse,
He keeps his own small darkened house
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