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Ozymandias

The poem describes a lone statue leg remaining in the Egyptian desert, the only trace of a once great city. An inscription on the leg proclaims it was built by the great King Ozymandias, but around it only sand remains - the mighty city shown by this leg is now entirely gone. The poem suggests that future travelers may similarly come upon lone fragments of London and wonder what powerful civilization once lived in that place, now vanished without a trace.

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Ozymandias

The poem describes a lone statue leg remaining in the Egyptian desert, the only trace of a once great city. An inscription on the leg proclaims it was built by the great King Ozymandias, but around it only sand remains - the mighty city shown by this leg is now entirely gone. The poem suggests that future travelers may similarly come upon lone fragments of London and wonder what powerful civilization once lived in that place, now vanished without a trace.

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Ozymandias

Horace Smith
IN Egypts sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far on throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
I am great Ozvx~Nui~s, saith the stone,
The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
The wonders of my hand. The Citys gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder,and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

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