The White Dragon

Ever closer looms the white dragon-

All retreat with fear and awe.

One alone can slay the white dragon

And save the village from her claw.

None defy the white dragon

All presenting fear and dread

The champ who wouldst slay the white dragon

Has been found and he is dead.

Are there none amongst the village people

who, the white dragon, do not fear?

The white dragon finds another victim

A helpless child who wandered near.

The child's mother sees the white dragon,

Her baby it its talons huge

The mother slays the white dragon.

For she's the child's one refuge.

Now many claim the white dragon

Met her end upon their sword

But we all know the white dragon

lost not the battle to a lord.

And this maid who slew the white dragon,

seeks not reward or recompense.

All the maid saw was danger

and saved her child from thence.

But stories of the white dragon

fall evermore upon our ear

how men defied the white dragon

and gave not in unto their fear.

But we know that the white dragon

fell not to fearsome warrior's club,

but that what slew the white dragon,

was a gentle mother's love.

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