THE BURNS MONUMENT
Sir,—We get over the radio, and at the pictures, quite a lot of Unsolved Mysteries. You know the kind of thing: Did So-and-so have a far-seeing eye? Did Nostrodamus refer to Russia when he wrote “. . .”? We ourselves ask you, was Sir Walter Scott a prophet equalling the aforesaid Nostrodamus when he wrote in “ Marmion ” Dunedin’s cross a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. But now is razed that monument. There can be no doubt whatever that he was referring to the Thomas Burns monument in the Octagon. A warning, also, to-whom-it-may-concern follows in next few lines: Oh, be his tomb as lead to lead Upon this dull destroyer’s head. —I am, etc., L. T. April 21.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26442, 22 April 1947, Page 3
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