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Samuel Butler 1874
From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo
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Samuel Butler 1874
"Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed, and set at naught, Beauty crieth in the attic and no man regardeth: O God! O Montreal!"
The English satirist Samuel Butler visited the old Montreal Museum of Natural History in 1874, where he saw that the plaster east of Myron's Discobolus was relegated to the storage room. The act of curatorial prudery inspired him to write the satiric verse "A Psalm of Montreal" --with its refrain "O God! O ...
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