Robert Burns -- Victoria Embankment Gardens, City of Westminster, London, UK
N 51° 30.510 W 000° 07.314
30U E 699720 N 5710302
A statue in honor of Rabbie Burns, The Bard, stands in the Victoria Embankment Gardens in Westminster, London, UK
Waymark Code: WMRY85
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/21/2016
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This statue of Rabbie Burns, known in Scotland simply as the Bard, sculpted by Scottish sculptor Sir John Robert Steell, stands in a place of honor in the lush Victoria Embankment Gardens in the City of Westminster, London.
Burns is wearing the usual clothes of a Scottish peasant and seems to be caught in the act of writing a poem. The statue is mounted on a base of red granite which is inscribed as follows:
"ROBERT BURNS
1759-1796
The poetic genius of my Country found me at the Plough -- and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as She inspired."
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