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King of Kings
Rime: Stories About Poetry
English - September 17, 2020 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHistory poetry poems rhyme poets storytelling weird strange history tales rime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Time erodes all earthly power and its trappings; though that didn’t stop European countries in the early 19th century from racing to grab up Egypt’s fallen monuments, trying to claim ancient glories for their own. One misidentified fragment in particular had a tumultuous voyage to its new home, at the same moment as the ruler it depicted was being immortalized in Percy Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias.”