Robert Burns - Garfield Park, Chicago, IL
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N 41° 52.945 W 087° 43.045
16T E 440475 N 4636970
The statue on granite base is of Robert Burns (1759-1796), the national poet of Scotland, and was created by W. Grant Stevenson in 1906.
Waymark Code: WM58A7
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2008
Views: 11
Main inscription reads:
Robert Burns
"A man's a man for a' that."
There were 4 bronze plaques, sadly now gone. Inscriptions under these plaques reads:
From scene's like these Old Scotia's grandeur springs.
In fair virtue's heavenly road, the cottage leaves the palace far behind.
Pleasures are like poppies spread, you seize the flower its bloom is shed.
The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley.
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