![]() ![]() That all may learn from whence the plunderer came, That Adrian reard when drooping Science mournd. ![]() These Cecrops placed, this Pericles adornd, Thy country sends a spoiler worse than both. Scaped from the ravage of the Turk and Goth, Lo! here, despite of war and wasting fire, Seekst thou the cause of loathing? -look around. Now honourd less by all, and least by me Ĭhief of thy foes shall Pallas still be found. Proclaims thee Briton, once a noble name įirst of the mighty, foremost of the free, “Mortal!” -twas thus she spake- “that blush of shame Although Byron never intended to publish this poem, a copy was stolen from him and printed without his approval. He penned a poem, the Curse of Minerva, to denounce Elgin’s actions. Byron was a bitter opponent of Lord Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon marbles from Greece, and “reacted with fury” when Elgin’s agent gave him a tour of the Parthenon, during which he saw the missing friezes and metopes. Lord Byron has been described as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”, but there is an other reason – besides his regular escapades – why the British may have deemed this famous poet to be ‘wicked’. ![]()
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