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The text of this article seems to have been lifted almost word for word from http://www.thebbsociety.com/ . I am going to try to rewrite it, but that will mean shortening it a lot. Stratford490 (talk) 21:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a go at it. It's shorter now than it was, but at least it's original. I used "BB Remembered" by Tom Quinn as a source. Stratford490 (talk) 23:44, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'Motto'

The wonder of the world
The beauty and the power,
The shapes of things,
Their colours, lights and shades,
These I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts.

This quotation was copied by his father, supposedly from a gravestone in a north-country churchyard ("from an old Cumbrian gravestone" according to the BB Society biography). The unidentified grave is also variously described as in Cumberland or the Lake District or on a "19th century Scottish tombstone". There is a discussion about the source on a blog (not a RS, so used here, not on the page)

The words had appeared on a monument to Alexander Morton, erected in 1927 beside the A71 road in Ayrshire, Scotland.^[1]

The first four lines have a similarity to lines from "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855) by Robert Browning; "The beauty and the wonder and the power, The shapes of things, their colours, lights and shades".

The earliest mention of "Look ye also while life lasts" in the online British Newspaper Archive is a mention on 7 July 1927 of Morton's monument. Nedrutland (talk) 08:28, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ Historic Environment Scotland. "ALEXANDER MORTON MONUMENT, BESIDE A71 BETWEEN NEWMILNS AND DARVEL (Category A Listed Building) (LB13461)". Retrieved 26 March 2025.

[lbr-1] Historic Environment Scotland. "ALEXANDER MORTON MONUMENT, BESIDE A71 BETWEEN NEWMILNS AND DARVEL (Category A Listed Building) (LB13461)". Retrieved 26 March 2025.

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