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"Frae Furrow tae Firmament in Four Lowps; the Fourth Lowp"

"Frae Furrow tae Firmament in Four Lowps; the Fourth Lowp"

The missing words to lines from two of the poems ("Tae a Mouse" and "My Love is like a Red Red Rose) are revealed by peering through spy holes in the main plinth, while the third poem, "The Lea Rig" is completed when Burns's shadow moves round to meet his girl at the hour of gloamin' grey; "...To meet thee on the Lea Rig, my ain kind dearie-o"

Commissioned by the National Trust for Scotland
2010

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