File:AU Burns Canberra.jpg
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English: Statue of Robert Burns in Canberra, Australia. Sculptor was John S. Davie (1862-1955); The foundery was Chiurazzi, Napoli (Naples). It was erected in 1935 at the corner of Canberra Avenue and National Circuit, Forrest, where then stood the Burns Club.
The plinth bears the words:
Behind the statue are four friezes, bearing the a likeness to Burns' works with quotes below (L-R):
Status of the InscriptionThe four-line transcription stated above for the text on the plinth bears a misleading resemblance to standard versions of the widely quoted-from Burns poem "To a Louse". The plinth transcription's 2nd line
corresponds to the typical Scottish-dialect version
which is sometimes quoted (even when the first line is left in a Scots version) with "ithers" translated to "others", and less often with "oursels" also translated (to "ourselves") The final stanza (among the 8) of "To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady's Bonnet, At Church" has six lines; the first two are the most often quoted. The final stanza, in Scots, reads (per the Project Gutenberg transcription of Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns)
To name a few, the following sources match that, verbatim et literatim (and in fact punctuation), as to at least the first four lines:
and as to the line in question, Google results, as of 2008 June 4, are
and in contrast,
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Source | photo by User:Peter Ellis at en.wikipedia |
Author | User:Peter Ellis at en.wikipedia |
Camera location | 35° 18′ 52.92″ S, 149° 07′ 46.2″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | -35.314700; 149.129500 |
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[edit]- 03:37, 5 January 2006 . . User:Peter_Ellis (talk | contribs | block) uploaded "File:AU Burns Canberra.jpg" (Statue of Robert Burns, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. At the corner of Canberra Avenue and National Circuit, Forrest. I took this picture in January 2006.
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