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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20020502
Author:IAN SWANSON

QUOTATIONS from Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott are the early favourites among suggestions for words and phrases on the walls of the new Holyrood parliament.

A group of MSPs appointed to oversee art for the new building wants the public to put forward their favourite poetry and prose which could be engraved in stone or glass or on pavements around the new complex to "let the building speak".

Earlier this week, the Evening News invited readers to send in their own suggestions and there has been an impressive response.

The most frequently proposed text was a couplet from Burns' To A Newt:

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