Pane of glass from windows of the Globe Inn, Dumfries inscribed by Robert Burns
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- Object number
- 3.4003.3c
- On display
- Yes
- Maker
- Burns, Robert (Artist)
- Object number
- 3.4003.3c
- On display
- Yes
- Maker
- Burns, Robert (Artist)
Description
Pane of glass from windows of the Globe Inn, Dumfries inscribed by Robert Burns, late 18th century.
The three panes of glass are from the windows of the Globe Inn, Dumfries and contain eighteen lines (from his own poetry) written with a diamond by the Poet.
Robert engraved his views on the relative merits of war and sex on to these window panes of a lodging room in Dumfries:
‘I MURDER hate by field or flood,
Tho' glory's name may screen us;
In wars at home I'll spend my blood,
Life-giving wars of Venus:
The deities that I adore
Are social Peace and Plenty;
I'm better pleased to make one more,
Than be the death of twenty.’
Robert put his views into practice by conducting a love affair in the same room.
‘I MURDER hate by field or flood,
Tho' glory's name may screen us;
In wars at home I'll spend my blood,
Life-giving wars of Venus:
The deities that I adore
Are social Peace and Plenty;
I'm better pleased to make one more,
Than be the death of twenty.’
Robert put his views into practice by conducting a love affair in the same room.
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