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Project Gutenberg
The
Musical Box of Wonders by
Paul St John Mackintosh (paperback only) published by
H.
Harksen Producitons
Following is the complete text of the poem recited by Paul St John
Mackintosh at the end of the interview:
Mackintoshes
I’m writing this to tell my baby daughter
—who took my pen to chew just now—about her
rambunctious forebears, Papists or Dissenters,
before they were Glasgow artists or inventors:
nine hundred years of sanguinary glories,
blood-fuelled vendettas, feuding feudatories,
feral mosstroopers, breekless in the heather,
sleeping out plaid-wrapped through all Highland weather;
conveniently detained during Flodden,
second at Bannockburn, first at Culloden;
Jacobite malcontents, staunch in lost causes,
schooled by reverses and misfortune’s tawses;
clan wildcat totem for crest and supporters,
red lion, boar’s head, heart in hand, ship quarters;
proud bearings passed through gentleman and peasant,
from those ancestral mountains to the present
ludicrous days of raincoats and galoshes:
ferocious, feckless, fearless Mackintoshes.