The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 16 Page 26

Queen, Our lives and safeties all; A sad misfortune once there did Schenectady befall.

“From forth the woods of Canady The Frenchmen tooke their way, The people of Schenectady To captivate and slay.

“They march for two and twenty daies, All thro’ ye deepest snow; And on a dismal winter night They strucke ye cruel blow.

“The lightsome sunne that rules the day Had gone down in the West; And eke the drowsie villagers Had sought and found their reste.

“They thought they were in safetie all, Nor dreamt not of the foe; But att midnight they all swoke In wonderment and woe.

“For they were in their pleasant beddes, And soundlie sleeping, when Each door was sudden open broke By six or seven menne!