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I Love The Magic Behind Beautiful Words

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822

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.”

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NudasPriest · 46-50, M
... and two hundred years on, we gaze upon his artful words in awe.
bookerdana · M
@NudasPriest Yes and if we don't have the "predicted nuclear,biological or ecological catastrophes that are always predicted they'll be reading it in another 200
NudasPriest · 46-50, M
@bookerdana Absolutely - and they are most worthy - I wonder if he ever imagined it would be so?
bookerdana · M
@NudasPriest Shelley or Ozymandias?
NudasPriest · 46-50, M
@bookerdana Both - that is the beautiful parallel, born of the time passed since Shelley penned his words.
bookerdana · M
@NudasPriest Shelley I think might have considered it,Ozzy less so!
NudasPriest · 46-50, M
Ozy we presume incognizant of his own mortality, Shelly likely unaware of the immortality of his words. @bookerdana