2270

Generation: F

Robert Hague Mackay

Author of this stack.

with his Great Grandmother, Robina Wilson Brown.

at Strathnaver.

Alan L. Mackay, 30 July 1980 (RLM's 84th Birthday):

To see RLM's notebook in Mountain View, California and to recall a small son swimming in the harbour of Trsteno, near Dubrovnik, circa 1965.

        Robert

        We launch this Argosy,
            loaded with everything
        that we may expect
            to carry over to the future.

        What may we give him
            for the journey
        and for his life in a new land -
            there is no map
        and the compass varies ?

        Only the little black notebook
            with what his grandfather
        had found useful,
            when he went to the wars.


                A.L Mackay