Ruminations on Ruins

<p><em>&ldquo;I met a traveller from an antique land</em></p> <p><em>Who said: &ldquo;Two vast and trunkless legs of stone</em></p> <p><em>Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,</em></p> <p><em>Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,</em></p> <p><em>And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,</em></p> <p><em>Tell that its sculptor well those passions read</em></p> <p><em>Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,</em></p> <p><em>The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:</em></p> <p><em>And on the pedestal these words appear:</em></p> <p><em>&lsquo;My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:</em></p> <p><a href="https://clayhallee.medium.com/ruminations-on-ruins-e42bcc4e72b0"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>