Ozymandias
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 OzymandiasOzymandias Pharaoh Rameses II (reigned
1279-1213 BCE). According to the OED, the statue was once 57 feet
tall., 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.”
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