O Wert Thou..... (MK Artwalks) Traditional Cache
chas49: After several visits to look for a new location, I've sadly decided this has to go. It's going to be months before the lavender grows back :(
O Wert Thou..... (MK Artwalks)
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Placed in Station Square near the sculpture
A small black container near one of MK's public artworks. Log only, so bring a pencil.
"O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast: Ronald Rae, 1984 Granite Outside the Railway Station Purchased by the then Commission for the New Towns. Ronald Rae is an artist and poet who lives and works in Edinburgh. His work is wide ranging, from sculpture, drawing and mixed media pieces to sun-drawings on driftwood and dried leaves. He has been working with granite since the 1960s and O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast, which took 10 months to carve, is one of a large number of granite sculptures exhibited in Milton Keynes from 1995-9. He says of the work 'The title of the sculpture is a tribute to Robert Burns and one of his last poems. The subject matter of the sculpture, like the poem, is universal in its theme of sharing and expressing warmth, tenderness and love in times of trouble'.
Robert Burns' poem opens: 'O, wert thou in the cauld blast
On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
My plaidie to the angry airt,
I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.
Or did Misfortune's bitter storms
Around thee blaw, around thee blaw,
Thy bield should be my bosom,
To share it a', to share it a'."
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