Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Robert Burns statue

• Front: The Cotter's Saturday Night – “From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs.”. A "Cotter" and his family relax on Saturday evening, after a week of work, knowing Sunday is a day of rest.
• Right: Tam O’Shanter’s Ride – “Ae spring brought off her master hale but left behind her ain grey tail.” One of Burns most famous poems. A sculpture of the final scene when Tam O'Shanter safely reaches Brig o' Doon after almost being captured by witches.
• Left: The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata Scene of a group of Ayrshire vagrants drinking one night in Poosie Nansie’s tavern in Mauchline. A maimed homeless veteran sings a song of his long service, fighting first in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
• Back: To a Mountain Daisy, On Turning one Down, With The Plough, in April 1786 – “Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow’r; Thou’s met me in a evil hour.” Scene of a farmer using the fate of a ploughed under flower as a metaphor for life.

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