User:Herculaneum

I am a woman who has visited Italy and was mesmerized by the history and tableau of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It brought Shelley's poem to mind.

  OZYMANDIAS of EGYPT  I met a traveller from an antique land  Who said:&mdash;Two vast and trunkless legs of stone  Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,  Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown  And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command  Tell that its sculptor well those passions read  Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,  The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.  And on the pedestal these words appear:  "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:  Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"  Nothing beside remains: round the decay <BR> Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, <BR> The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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