Half sunk a shattered visage lies

Ozymandias

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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	I met a traveller from an antique land,
	Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
	Stand in the desart....Near them, on the sand,
	Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
5	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:
10	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." I was catching up on posts this morning when I spotted the banner on Empires Fall, the new blog I was talking about the other day. Being me, I had to find out where the quote came from. Probably most of you already knew and certainly Google did. I can understand why he selected it. It could have been written yesterday and it's more than a little frightening.