John Watson Nicol, Scottish
Immigrants Realizing Too Late That They Forgot Their Phone Chargers, 1883
Oil on canvas
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/// Forced to sail from their loved Scottish shore,
they fear they’ll see Lochaber No More.
They’re expelled from their land
and she can’t understand
why they took the dog, not daughter Flor.
/// Now impoverished, the couple would find
that, although for their daughter they pined,
three’s too many to feed.
So, in desperate need
they would have to leave Flora behind.
/// Daughter Flora, fifteen, nearly grown,
would remain, but would not be alone.
Landlord promised he’d wed her
before he would bed her;
a “proposal” they had to condone.
/// They had bundled their meager possessions.
Leaving Flor? One of many concessions.
Cruel “Highland Clearances,”
to all appearances,
culminated the family’s oppressions.
/// To America sail the McCoys,
far away from their Highland home joys.
But they’ll count themselves lucky,
settling into Kentucky,
‘til their kin meet those daft Hatfield boys.