Eleanor Talbot

How quickly childhood flies away
If I close my eyes 'tis but yesterday
I walk in a garden, my sister beside me
And always my mother's hand to guide me

I learned to read and to write and to pray
Til my thirteenth year when to Sudely away
Hush hush let my memories be
All my life they will sustain me
Let me be forgotten and quietly live

To Sudely Castle to be a wife
Ten turbulent years of sadness and strife
The death of my husband the others who died
And never a child for my hand to guide

Let prayers be said for those I have lost
I set my seal with it's daisy embossed
Hush, hush don't disturb as I pray
A decade of the rosary for each sad day
Let me be forgotten and quietly live

And into my mourning a March wind did blow
A promise of Springtime a life all aglow
Vows we exchanged a promise I cherished
But with news from the city my happiness perished

Make no outward sign my head decreed
Though the heart within me may silently bleed

Hush hush never do say
That Edward of York ever came this way
Let me be forgotten and quietly live
Hush hush no one can say
From the path of virtue I ever did stray
Let me be forgotten and quietly live