Road winds up to a castle door

Towers and turrets and ramparts galore

A dragon sits on a nearby hill

Hatching its plots to attack and kill

On a path through the forest and up to that place

A young girl walks with an innocent face

If you please, says the girl to the ravenous beast

I’ve come to invite you to our winter feast

Why? asked the dragon, I’m here to attack

To burn and to lead you to ruin and wrack

It’s been a hard winter, said the sweet child

We know that you’re hungry, we know that you’re wild

Please, sir Dragon, we offer no hate

Put aside your schemes, come down to the gate

We’ve food in abundance, so eat your fill

The dragon agreed, and came down from the hill

The castle and dragon reached an accord

They’d give to the dragon what they could afford

The dragon would guard them from all of their foes

And so live together in peace and repose.