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Essay Archive - Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
Ozymandias (1818): An Analysis
         I met a traveler from an antique land
        Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
        Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
        Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
        And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,   5
        Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
        Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
        The hand that mocked* them and the heart that fed;   imitated
        And on the pedestal these words appear:
        "My n....
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