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October 17, 2003
Another Poem--Shelley-Ozymandias
It's good to have a couple of poems--and I'll be away awhile contemplating other things so best to leave you with something to think about:
Ozymandias
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 lips, 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."
Posted by Steven Riddle at October 17, 2003 8:05 AM
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