My Punishment is Greater than I Can Bear

Cain 

By Edwin Roscoe Mullins (1848~1907)
Marble

Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, crouches in anguish at his punishment for jealously murdering his brother Abel.  God condemned him to be a permanent refugee, whose lands would never produce crops.  His story comes from the first book in the bible (Genisis 4:13).

(The above is on a plaque in front of the statue)

Not much forgiveness  there,,, and being a refugee was no better than now either ... interesting...

Mullins sculpted the statue around 1899.  A Londoner, he was a successful sculptor who achieved a high reputation in his own day.  The statue was bought at the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901 and is on public display at the Glasgow Royal Botanic Gardens in the Kibble Palace.