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| The Robert Burns Monument was donated by Scotch citizens in 1908. Burns, the Scottish National Poet, is most admired for having voiced the attitudes of the common person, and for his innate lyrical sense. The monument was sculpted by M. Earl Cummings of the Park Commission. It is located on John F. Kennedy Drive near 8th Avenue. |
A plaque on the base reads:
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY-1786
WEE MODEST CRIMSON-TIPPED FLOW'R
THOU'S MET ME IN AN EVIL HOUR
FOR I MAUN CRUSH AMANG THE STOURE
______________________THY SLENDER STEM
TO SPARE THEE NOW IS PAST MY POW'R
______________________THOU BONNIE GEM |
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