![]() The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, ![]() ![]() Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Here is that famous sonnet "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley, written in January 1818, nearly 200 years ago. Vanity, false pride and arrogance never win, in my view. Nature and Time always prevail and overtake ultimately, when nothing remains of those great empires or the arrogant leaders.and only the lone and level sands stretch far away. I often think of Shelley's famous insightful sonnet "Ozymandias" that brilliantly depicts the inevitable fall of all foolishly arrogant leaders and their huge empires built in pretensions to their self-proclaimed greatness.
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