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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
the Egyptian
pharaoh
Ramesses II. The poem looks at the fate of history.
It also looks at the damage of time
Bearers
his face. On the stone these words appear: My Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,
glee,
frown'd:
Yet he was kind; or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault.
The village all declar'd how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Lands he could measure, terms and tides
presage,
And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,