Ozymandias

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 namе is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing besidе remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away'