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The British government may be deaf to pleas to return the Elgin Marbles, but the pagan/literary community of Britain has been, for nearly two centuries, in vociferous support of their return. Lord Byron was perhaps the most outspoken about it, going so far as to have a public feud with Elgin, as well as write a poem about it:

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Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands, which it had best behoved
To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!

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Lord Byron was one of the greats. Anyone who'd raise a monument in memory of his deceased dog is okay in my books. :) It's a lovely memorial to Boatswain, too, at Newstead Abbey.

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-- Nanaea