Tour Scotland Video Robert Fergusson Gravestone Canongate Kirkyard Edinburgh

Tour Scotland travel video of the poet, Robert Fergusson Gravestone in Canongate Kirkyard, Royal Mile, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. The gravestone was raised by Robert Burns, who, on visiting Edinburgh twelve years after Fergusson's death, was shocked to find no memorial stone over the poet's grave. Burns commissioned the stone from Robert Burn, the architect who later designed the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill. It was erected in 1792 with lines on it written by Burns: No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, No storied urn, nor animated Bust; This simple stone directs Pale Scotia's way; To pour her Sorrows o'er the Poet's Dust.

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