"elf-light" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:",
          "text": "His mildly vivid dewy beam\nOf beryl to diffuse: the gleam\nWith elf-light tiniest figures lit\nOf shapely moon-fair elves who sit\nEach on a gemmy blade's curled tip\nIn circle.",
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          "ref": "1865, G. Linnæus Banks, Daisies in the Grass: A Collection of Songs and Poems, London: Robert Hardwicke, page 142:",
          "text": "No elf-light hovers round the pool.",
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          "ref": "1916, Wallace Irwin, Suffering Husbands, New York: George H. Doran, published 1920, page 174:",
          "text": "\"You don't mean it!\" The promise had come like a blinding surge of elf-light to that soul so long nurtured upon poor hopes.",
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          "ref": "1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter VII, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 59:",
          "text": "“Jam!” said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!",
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        "A supernatural, soft, glowing light given off by elves."
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