There was a poet
Who was ordered
By the King to pen
A poem on his new palace.
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I had posted a rejoinder or two, to the note posted below by poet Mr M. J. Lemon. But they have simply disappeared. PoemHunter has become difficult to operate.
Robert said it so well...Shelley would almost certainly want to recite this verse. Magnificent.
Just to remind us that our vanity is so illusory. And Poetry reigns supreme!