The robber girl avails her prey,
That tentative stranger who has made her way
To the lonely place where the gypsies roam
The sly maiden claims a playmate for home.
Wily as a fox, perilous with the knife
The playmate tells her story, valiantly requests for the need of her life.
Gerda begs and Gerda pleads
The means to escape, her gaoler concedes.
The reindeer is set free, his heels set to fly
To carry Miss Gerda, up over and high
To battle with the winter foe
The Queen in her ice and snow.
This she knows must be done
Before frost can beat the dawn of the sun.