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Hush, Hush Little Children
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This is based on the true story of the voyage of the Hector bringing like hundreds of other ships, settlers to the new world...

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Hush, Hush Little Children

By: fee

 

‘Twas summer in the year of our Lord…1773

They came from Scottish highlands their hopes in hand

Tartans swirled and young children’s hungry mouths cried

Aye, ‘twas a new life they sought in that new promised land

 

Aye, they came from Loch Broom and also from Greenock

By cruel Agents tainted promises they were led like a flock

Up the gangway a piper cheerfully let them smiling aboard

The good tall ship the Hector that was moored at the dock

 

One hundred and eighty poor souls and Master John Spiers

Nine weeks of cramped spaces , the small pox and dysentery

Starving and sick some even dug in the rotting wood of the deck

Eating the worms found their to try to sustain life one more day

 

At least eighteen souls perished, some wee babes in arms

Over the side on the Lord’s prayer that whispered their name

No one who would answer to their sad cries in the night

Nay not the rich men in Europe with no sense of shame

The immigrants hopes dashed on that New Scotland shore

All the promises of the promised land so soon slipped away

Not even supplies to help ease them through winter’s cold

Led more people to suffer and be buried under gray clay

 

Aye today a monuments stands and the ship’s replica sails

Of the good ship the Hector that landed in old Pictou town

Still, history knows the truth, why wee ghosts cry in the night

As a dark cloud sheds teardrops as the dark Angels frown

 
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 Reviews of "Hush, Hush Little Children"
Reviewed by Connie Faust
Reviewed on September 17, 2008
A poignant tale well told. What a crushing blow it must have been to those who boarded the Hector in bright anticipation.

Connie
Reviewed by Carole Mathys
Reviewed on September 9, 2008
Love the way you can weave a story, Fee...

Carole~
Reviewed by Kathleen McDonald
Reviewed on September 9, 2008
Aye the Clearences, I have written about them too. twas a sad time in our history for many that were taken off their land and sent away to other lands. Well done Fee.

hugs
Kathy
Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on September 9, 2008
Fee,

I love the way you bring the past to present. Peace, Love and Blessings Always, Paul.
Reviewed by Rebecca Lerwill
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
I can totally see you as a sailor back then, Fee. I think you were born 300 years too late. Glad you did, though :-)
Great piece you wrote here.
Love,
Becca~
Reviewed by La Belle Rouge Poetess Of The Heart
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
Fee you are such a wonderful storyteller, a write to touch hearts and minds.
Reviewed by George Thompson
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
A sale tale that needed to be told.

George
Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
Still, history knows the truth, why wee ghosts cry in the night

History is truly a fascinating topic, and you weave another sad historical tale quite well.
Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
Absolutely haunting write, Fee; very well penned! BRAVO!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D
Reviewed by Victoria's Poetry & Voices of Muse
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
Good Morning Fee,
Oh the errie chills from the reality you have express in your poetic reincarnation of the past. The risk of ones life as a sacrafice for a better life surely was worth the risk of death to those who tried.
Love the vessel of Hector still at sea with the memories of "Hush Hush Little Children"
Embraced ~ Embrassé
Vickie
Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
Thanks for the history lesson, sometimes we read only about happy endings and valiant pioneers, never on the fallen ones that walked on the quick sands of promises.

Georg
Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on September 8, 2008
One thing I love about your work, Fee, is that you tell a story in such poetic verse. And although this is sad, you wrote it beautifully.
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
i was definitely entertained and moved by this sea worthy poem tale ...
Reviewed by Sheila Roy
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
An especially powerful ending on this one, Fee. A chilling tale. Love and Hugs,
Sheila
Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
Haunting elloquence, Fee, beautifully penned. Well done!

(((HGUS))) and love, Karla.
Reviewed by Michelle Mead
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
You do this really well, a real storyteller shows through here, one who knows his history and can then weave it into a poem for others to see come to life and enjoy-and I enjoyed it!! Great work.
Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
Brilliant, Fee - the true history instead of the feel-good stuff in the history books. We look at the monuments and we think, "Ah, the good old days." But the colonies were a tough survival act. Thanks for this glimpse of reality.

Ted
Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
Sad, but I love it, really good...are they your ancestors or did you arrive on a Harley...;-) Ed
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
such a sad tale, very well told!
Reviewed by Rose Rideout
Reviewed on September 7, 2008
Such a sad story Felix, knowing it is the truth is heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing. You never dissappoint us with what you write.

Love ya face Cuz XOXOXO, Rose
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