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Quotation from Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I met a traveller from an antique land”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (spoken by The speaker)

Ozymandias, Line 1 (The Examiner, 1818; Hutchinson (1914))

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The opening line sets up the frame of secondhand testimony.

Citation: "I met a traveller from an antique land" — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias, Line 1 (The Examiner, 1818; Hutchinson (1914)). (id ozymandias-q1)

Portrait: Ozymandias The Examiner 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley., Public domain.

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