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Ozymandias
Ozymandias

Getting Started

Nothing is stable in this world; everything is subject to change and decay.
Time does not spare even the ‘king of kings’. The statues carved in stone
marble, etc. do remind the world about them but with the passage of time
these statues also get shattered and the world gradually forgets them.

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;

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