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 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. . Percy Bysshe Shelley
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This is one of the most famous quotes in all of literature. It is a quote from the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley called "Ozymandias". The poem tells the story of a king who ruled his kingdom. The king, who was called Ozymandias, built a statue which he called "King of Kings".

His son, seeing the statue, said that it looked like his father. The son was very proud of his father and he wanted to build one just like it. The son went into the desert and began to search for materials to build the statue that his father had made.

As he walked through the desert he came across a few pieces of stone which were shaped like legs. He began to put them together and create a statue that would be just like his father's statue. As he continued to work on his statue he eventually became very tired and fell asleep. He had been working hard for a long time and was very tired when he finally finished it.

He thought about how proud he was of his work and how amazing it looked, but then after walking all over the desert until he found these pieces of stone, he thought about how much more pride there was in making something from nothing rather than building something out of materials that had already been made before.

Source: Rosalind And Helen A Modern Eclogue With Other Poems

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