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This line, and indeed the whole passage (lines 653-664), allude to the well-known poem by Goethe about the erlking, hoary enchanter of the elf-haunted alderwood, who falls in love with the delicate little boy of a belated traveler.
Source: wiktionary
So easy for one young son to be swallowed up in a world teeming with Erlkings, real and imagined.
Source: wiktionary
He was in the forest looking to see the trees / But none were there / He found a girl / She found the erlking
Source: wiktionary
By now, he seems less a cartoon character than some contemporary Erlking, the malicious spirit made famous by Goethe (and Schubert) but found originally in a Danish ballad.
Source: wiktionary
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