The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25650   Message #307592
Posted By: Micca
28-Sep-00 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Anyone here had to recite?
Subject: RE: Anyone here had to recite - Part 2
Liz, just for you as a sort of belated Birthday prezzie

OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT
By P.B. 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 lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survived 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