Roshnara was my grandfather Jocks' boat. After returning from India Jock my grandmother and Jocks 'batman' cruised around the coast of Ireland.
My grandmother some years before she died told me that Roshnara was later used in the Dunkirk evacuation. After that she heard Roshnara was left a rotting hulk in a forgotten estuary.
Also on that page are those beautiful quatrains of Omar Khayyam,
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
#romance #poetry #boats #1930s
My grandmother some years before she died told me that Roshnara was later used in the Dunkirk evacuation. After that she heard Roshnara was left a rotting hulk in a forgotten estuary.
Also on that page are those beautiful quatrains of Omar Khayyam,
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
#romance #poetry #boats #1930s
