...16th October, 1774. No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, " No storied urn nor animated bust," This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her Poet's dust. FOR ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ. thou, O stranger to the fame Of this much loved, much honor'd name ! (For none...

...luth October, 1774. No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, 'No storied urn nor animated bust ;' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. On the olfietside of the Stone is as follows: "By special grant of the Managers to Robert Burns, who erected...

...inscribed this epitaph : No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, Xo storied um nor animated bust, This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust. It is surprising that Burns should have found nothing more original for his second line than a copy...

...reverse of the stone is this record of its origin:— " By special grant of the managers to Robert Bums, who erected this stone, this burial-place is to remain...for ever sacred to the memory of Robert Fergusson." The simple stone has since been rescued from decay, and inserted in a monumental structure of a more...

...Scotia's way To pour her sorrow o'er her poet's dust." And on the reverse side we read : — • " By special grant of the managers to Robert Burns, who erected this stone, in a burial place to remain for ever sacred to the memory of Robert Fergusson." Thus far of the new...

...OCTOBER I&TH, 1774." " No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied urn, nor animated bust ; This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." — and as I read I needed not the sexton's garrulous description of how this grave had gone unmarked...

...following lines : — " No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn, nor animated bust ; ' This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770) was a native of Ncwcastleon-Tyne, and became a poet in his teens. He met...

...September, 1774. " No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, ' No storied urn nor animated bust; This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her puct'b dust." On the other side of the stone is as follows : — " By special grant of the Managers...

...is for the last rest of a poet. Robert Burns placed the stone, and on the back of it is inscribed: "By special grant of the managers to Robert Burns,...this burial-place is to remain for ever sacred to Robert Ferguson." That poet was born September 5, 1751, and died October 16, 1774. These lines, written...

...Fergusson's gravestone : No sculptur'd Marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied Urn nor animated Bust; This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way To pour her sorrows o'er her Poet's dust. The poet later added two other stanzas in the same strain. These poems only reinforce the conclusions...