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While were at it, WTF are the Elgin Marbles in England and NOT IN GREECE WHERE THEY BELONG?
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
- John Keats
My spirit is too weak - mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick eagle looking at the sky.
Yet ‘tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning’s eye.
Such dim-conceived glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old time - with a billowy main -
A sun - a shadow of a magnitude.
Elgin_Marbles_British_Museum
Because the Greeks had, and have no appreciation of anything from which they cannon derive immediate profit. Sure, let’s just stick them back on a dirty, disheveled tourist trap of a once great site and let the wonderful Athens air degrade them.