A Roundtable Tale

Arthur didn't see it ,
His back was to the sky .
They looked to the Heavens ,
Expecting then to die .

Arthur heard the shuffle ,
Looked up and turned around .
By the time he saw it ,
The spaceship hit the ground .

Gigantic can't describe
The ship's great size and scope .
Crashing there before them ,
They surely had no hope .

Force applied at impact
Was equal to a quake .
This was it, they figured .
They ducked down in its wake .

Suddenly , they saw them
Just flashing through the sky .
Four and twenty dragons .
Oh boy , how they could fly !

Then they felt a grasping .
How dragon claws can bend !
Following soon after ,
They felt the forceful wind .

They were their salvation ,
And carried them away
From the flames and wreckage
The spaceship brought that day .

Merlin and King Arthur ,
Two knights and twenty more
Gathered round a table
A tale not told before .

This one of the dragons
Heeding ole Merlin's call .
Saving them from spaceships
Whenever they might fall .

Yes , a tale remembered .
One told for many years .
One often forgotten
But true , it now appears .

You might have a question ,
The modern ones like you .
What becomes of spaceships
That fall out of the blue ?

Not as complicated ,
Though some might think it so .
Eating little bodies
Are dragon things , you know .

As for all the hardware .
They flew all that away .
The dragons dropped it all
Into Loch Ness , they say .

But if you still may doubt
The tale that I have told ,
Go and see the marker
That Arthur made so bold .

Marking where the dragons
Plucked Arthur up that day .
Where they grabbed ole Merlin
And flew him quick away .

Now you know the story ,
One unknown answered here .
Stonehenge is the marker
That Arthur made that year .

GREENWOLFE 1962