0 | I met a traveller from an antique land |
---|
1 | Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone |
---|
2 | Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, |
---|
3 | Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, |
---|
4 | And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, |
---|
5 | Tell that its sculptor well those passions read |
---|
6 | Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, |
---|
7 | The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: |
---|
8 | And on the pedestal these words appear: |
---|
9 | 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: |
---|
10 | Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' |
---|
11 | Nothing beside remains. Round the decay |
---|
12 | Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare |
---|
13 | The lone and level sands stretch far away." |
---|
14 | |
---|
15 | — Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" |
---|