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23 lines
848 B
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title: Ozymandias
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date: 1818-01-11
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poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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abstract: I met a traveller from an antique land, / Who said — "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert."
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tags: [poetry]
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
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Who said — "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
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Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
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And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
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Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
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The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
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And on the pedestal, these words appear:
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
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Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
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The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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