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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