OZYMANDIUS
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I
met a traveller from an antique land
Who
said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand
in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half
sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And
wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell
that its sculptor well those passions read
Which
yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The
hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And
on the pedestal these words appear:
'My
name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look
on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing
beside remains. Round the decay
Of
that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The
lone and level sands stretch far away.
John - my thoughts are with you
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