Robert Burns, (sculpture) - Detroit, MI - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The statue you see was placed in Cass Park in 1921. On the South side, is a bronze bas relief showing a plowman and a team with the couplet:

“Wee, modest, crimson-fipped flower
Then meet me in an evil hour.”
The bas relief on the east side of the statue has a bas relief showing horsemen pursured by spirits with the phrase:

“Nae man can tether time not tide.”

On the north side the bas relief shows a father reading to his family who are gathered in front of a fireplace with the couplet:

“From scenes like these,
Old Scotia’s grandure springs”

When the city of Detroit refurbishes potentially beautiful Cass Park, they may be able to restore the words of Burns that once graced the front of the statue, words that are extremely appropriate for Detroit with its musically gifted and diverse population:

“The highest mead of praise flows to him who makes a people sing,
who strike one note, the common good, one chord a wider brotherhood.”-Statue of Robert Burns

TITLE: George Lawson ARTIST(S): George Lawson DATE: 7/23/1921 MEDIUM: Bronze CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 87840028 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Cass Park north end facing the Masonic Temple 2733 2nd Ave, Detroit, MI 48201 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: No differences

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