"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." "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley In this excerpt, the speaker describes encountering the ruins of a statue in the desert, once a grand symbol of power and authority. However, time and nature have reduced it to a mere wreck, with nothing but desolation surrounding it, highlighting the transience of human achievements and the
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"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." "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley In this excerpt, the speaker describes encountering the ruins of a statue in the desert, once a grand symbol of power and authority. However, time and nature have reduced it to a mere wreck, with nothing but desolation surrounding it, highlighting the transience of human achievements and the
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