<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ozymandias (in reply to Percy Bysshe Shelley)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a traveller coming from the desert<br>wrapped in white cloth<br>and the man greeted me, asked for water<br>and told me about Ozymandias, the great king<br>whose broken statue still commanded respect<br>whose kingdom was now laid bare<br>from the covering sand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and suddenly the sky darkened <br>as if the sun for moments took flight<br>and far of out in the desert<br>the red dust hang like a huge sandstorm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but the size of it was severe<br>and I saw something rising, materializing<br>getting form<br>the huge legs of stone blazing alive<br>and the entire body of it, <br>that colossal wreck became whole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and around it was gathered <br>a might crowd of armed men<br>bowing down to its honour<br>and praying to it<br>while a voice like thunder <br>cried out for the entire world<br>to despair, to bow before<br>before its supreme reign, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">before it turned north, <br>marching with its army<br>right into Europe<br>to destroy, to enslave <br>and to take with force.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399095" data-title="Ozymandias (in reply to Percy Bysshe Shelley) de Gert Strydom" data-description="I saw a traveller coming from the desert wrapped in white cloth and the man greeted me, asked for water and told me about Ozymandias, the great king whose broken statue still commanded respect whose kingdom was now laid bare from the covering sand..."></div> </div> </div>

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