Grade 10 · Poem
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
From "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) · Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
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