In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a giant leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the desert knows
I am the great OZYMANDIAS, saith the stone,
The King of Kings, this mighty city shows,
“The Wonders of my Hand” -- The city’s 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 through the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful yet unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
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