Leave us alone and you 'll see How we can drag down the Great ! We are the worm in the wood ! We are the rot at the root ! We are the germ in the blood ! We are the thorn in the foot ! Mistletoe killing an oak -- Rats gnawing cables in two -- Moths making holes in a cloak -- How they must love what they do ! Yes -- and we Little Folk too , We are as busy as they -- Working our works out of view -- Watch , and you 'll see it some day ! No indeed ! We are not strong , But we know Peoples that are . Yes , and we 'll guide them along , To smash and destroy you in War ! We shall be slaves just the same ? Yes , we have always been slaves , But you -- you will die of the shame , And then we shall dance on your graves ! We are the Little Folk , we , etc. . HAL O ' THE DRAFT Prophets have honour all over the Earth , Except in the village where they were born , Where such as knew them boys from birth Nature-ally hold 'em in scorn . When Prophets are naughty and young and vain , They make a won ` erful grievance of it ; -LRB- You can see by their writings how they complain -RRB- , But Oh , 't is won ` erful good for the Prophet ! There 's nothing Nineveh Town can give -LRB- Nor being swallowed by whales between -RRB- , Makes up for the place where a man 's folk live , That do n't care nothing what he has been . He might ha ' been that , or he might ha ' been this , But they love and they hate him for what he is . A rainy afternoon drove Dan and Una over to play pirates in the Little Mill . If you do n't mind rats on the rafters and oats in your shoes , the mill-attic , with its trap-doors and inscriptions on beams about floods and sweethearts , is a splendid place . It is lighted by a foot-square window , called Duck Window , that looks across to Little Lindens Farm , and the spot where Jack Cade was killed .
When they had climbed the attic ladder -LRB- they called it ` the mainmast tree ' , out of the ballad of Sir Andrew Barton , and XXXXX ` swarved it with might and main ' , as the ballad says -RRB- they saw a man sitting on Duck Window-sill .
Dan Earth Farm Folk Nature-ally Prophet Town Una day foot-square