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[edit] Summary
Statue of Robert Burns, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It was erected in 1935 at the corner of Canberra Avenue and National Circuit, Forrest, where then stood the Burns Club.
The statue's sculptor was John S. Davie; The foundery was Churazzi, Nappoli (Naples).
The plinth bears the words:
Burns
Born 1759 - Died 1790
O wad some power the giftie gie us
to see ourselves as they see us
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
an foolish notion
Behind the statue are four friezes, bearing the a likeness to Burns' works with quotes below (L-R):
But now your brow is beld john, your locks are like the snaw, but blessings on you frosty bow, John Anderson mu Jo
But mousie thou art no thy lane, in proving foresight may be vain, the best laid plans o mice and men, canc aft a cley
Kings may be blest but Tam was clorious O'er a the ills o life victorious
From scenes like these old Scotia's granseur springs That makes her loved at home revered abroad
Peter Ellis took this picture in January 2006.
[edit] Status of the Inscription
The 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
to see ourselves as they see us
corresponds to the typical Scottish-dialect version
- to see oursels as ithers see us
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)
- O wad some Power the giftie gie us
- To see oursels as ithers see us!
- It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
- An' foolish notion:
- What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
- An' ev'n devotion!
To name a few, the following sources match that, verbatim et literatim (and in fact punctuation), as to at least the first four lines:
- http://www.robertburns.org/works/97.shtml
- http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/louse.html
- http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/robert_burns/Robert_Burns_Poems_To_A_Louse.htm
- http://www.famous-poems.biz/Robert_Burns/To-A-Louse-top-ten-poems-by-Robert-Burns.html
- http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1279/1279-h/1279-h.htm#2H_4_0107
- http://www.bartleby.com/6/99.html
and as to the line in question, Google results, as of 2008 June 4, are
- 414 for "to see oursels as ithers see us".
and in contrast,
- 8 for "to see ourselves as they see us" burns "some power" OR "some pow'r".
of which five are like "forces us Latin Americans to see ourselves as they see us" and the remaining three are from WikiMedia sites, in connection with this image: es:Escocés (lengua germánica)#Literatura, Image:AU Burns Canberra.jpg, and Image talk:AU Burns Canberra.jpg.
[edit] Licensing
| date/time | username | edit summary |
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| 03:57, 5 January 2006 | en:User:Peter Ellis | (quotations) |
| 03:37, 5 January 2006 | en:User:Peter Ellis | (Statue of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns" title="Robert Burns">Robert Burns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Australian Capital Territory">Australian Capital Territory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>. At the corner of Canberra Avenue and National Circuit, Forrest. I took this picture in January 2006. ~~~~) |
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- (del) (cur) 03:37, 5 January 2006 . . en:User:Peter_Ellis Peter Ellis ( en:User_talk:Peter_Ellis Talk) . . 800x578 (102688 bytes) (Statue of en:Robert_Burns Robert Burns, en:Canberra Canberra, en:Australian_Capital_Territory Australian Capital Territory, en:Australia Australia. At the corner of Canberra Avenue and National Circuit, Forrest. I took this picture in January 2006. Maksim 18:38, 22 January 2006 (UTC) )
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