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Monday, February 1, 2021

Poem of the Day - Part 5

 Ozymandias


And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beyond remains.  Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

From Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Photo by Herbert List, 1937.

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