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Title
The Leith History Mural
Date
1986
Medium
paint
Accession number
EH6_DF_S028
Work type
Mural
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
first mural: THEY WERE CROSSING THE MEADOWS / A GUSTY EXPENSE OF COMMON LAND, GLARING GREEN UNDER THE SNOWY SKY. / THEIR DESTINATION WAS THE OLD TOWN, FOR MISS BRODIE / HAD SAID THEY SHOULD SEE WHERE HISTORY HAD BEN LIVED: / AND THTHEIR ROUTE HAD BROUGHT THME TO THE MIDDLE MEADOW WALK. / EUNICE, UNACCOMPANIED AT THE BACK , BEGAN TO HOP TO A RHYME WHICH SHE REPEATED TO HERSELF: EDINBURGH LEITH PORTOBELLO MUSSELBURGH AND DALKEITH; second mural CELEBRATION ON THE MEADOWS ON EVERY WALK A THRONG OF FOLK / BOYS BRIGADE DAYLICHT FADES / MIDDLE MEADOW HOME TO ROOST GO LET-WINGED CROWS / CORONATION / A DEW DROP RING A ROWAN FOR FORTUNE AND / THE CRESCENT THREADED WITH CLARSACH STRINGS / JAWBONE, JAWBONE RECITATION OF A RABBIE BURNS POEM. . . / BOYS BRIGADE MIDDLE MEADOW CORONATION JAWBONE; third mural: CORONATION GRAND OCCASION / MAY QUEEN CROWNED WITH CHERRY BLOSSOM / A PAIR OF PIPING UNICORNS LEAD HER CARNIVAL PROCESSION / FIDDLE-PLAYING SWALLOWS FOLLOW WITH THE WHITE COCKADE AND STRIP THE WILLOW / MAGPIES PLAY ACOORDION AS / HEATHER'S JIG IS DANCED WITH VIGOUR / BOYS BRIGADE MIDDLE MEADOW HIGH JINKS ON BRUNTSFIELD LINKS / fourth mural: HURDY GURDY STEELPAN BAND BALALAKA CLARSACH / "O WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST ON YONDER LEAA / MY PLAIDIE TO THE ANGRY AIRT, I'D SHELTER THEE / OR WERE I MONARCH O THE GLOBE, WI' THEE TO REIGN / THE BRIGHEST JEWEL IN MY CROWN WAD BE MY QUEEN" / BOYS BRIGADE MIDDLE MEADOW CORONATION CEILIDH
