Glass panel with inscribed poem by Robert Burns

Key details

Object number: 3.4002
Date: 1787
On display: Yes
Maker: Burns, Robert (Author)

Description

Glass panel with inscribed poem by Robert Burns, taken from Cross Keys Inn, Falkirk. One of only 14 inscribed glasses known to exist in Scotland. In 1787 Burns with a companion toured the Highlands of Scotland and en route visited Falkirk where he inscribed a glass window of the Cross Keys Inn.

In 1787, Robert Burns scratched four lines on this pane of glass in the window of the Cross Keys Inn in Falkirk. They ask for men who treat women well to be rewarded:

‘Sound be his sleep and blythe his morn,
That never did a lassie wrang;
Who poverty ne’er held in scorn,
For misery ever tholed a pang’

Inscribed 25 August 1787

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