Megalithic Poems

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nigelswift wrote:
Nice one.

Can find no better picture to accompany it than the top one here - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ by Gideon Fidler (almost painted to fit the poem). Browning wrote his Love Among the Ruins in 1855 so Fidler (1856-1935) may well have been influenced by it. And Browning's, And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold. an admonition, then and now perhaps, to those who seek, sell or even suggest that we should treat our heritage so.

Aye. Maybe it'll be rediscovered in the twenty second century and because of the words -

Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe
Long ago;
Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame
Struck them tame;
And that glory and that shame alike, the gold
Bought and sold.

will be assumed to be a lament about Britain's "early twenty first century metal detecting era"... ;)