Hope, The Blue Whale Poem by Ima Ryma

The year was 1891,
The place was off the Irish coast.
A young female blue whale had run
Aground on sand bar outermost.
The local folk found her trapped there.
They could not move her back to sea.
Her eyes watched them in loving care
Put her out of her misery.
Tons of blubber were taken from
'Hope, ' the blue whale, local folk named.
Her bones went to a museum,
Tale of this blue whale ever famed.

The local folk then did depart,
Like Hope, each with a heavy heart.