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"After the
Shipyard at Elderpark"
Frank McNab, 2009, acrylics on canvas. 40 x 50cm.
The self-taught man has just finished a Saturday nightshift
at the yards in Govan and is now standing among the columns of Elderpark
waiting for the library to open on a sunny Sunday morning (one of the original
conditions of Lady Isobel Elder's bequest was that the library should open on a
Sunday!). He is reading Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat:
Awake! for
morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung
the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight.
Situated in its own park, Elderpark Library is one of the
most beautiful places in Glasgow.
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