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Highland Mary

Highland Mary image
Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Th gtatue of Burns' Highland Marj s to be erected at Dunoon. More than :00 yeare a,go Burna flirted with Mary 'Caatpbell, to whom he waa faithless rtor-he was already married to Jean Araonr. However, he wrote beautlfu] vwmbs about his Hlghlam? Mary, henee üie tatue. It is one of the paradoxen hnaan nature that this monument ,cÈtebrats not the woman, who woulil iiaye remained obscure had she never nnt Biirns, but the poet who amused seïi with a flirtation, and with ïtTitlng verses about it.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register