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They left out the other version, Horace Smith's "Ozymandias": --- In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only
by spodek 6y ago
They left out the other version, Horace Smith's "Ozymandias":
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In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Naught but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder,—and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
- Arubis 6y agoAs I recall, he and Shelly both composed these in a personal competition, which Smith immediately conceded on seeing the other version.
- kybernetikos 6y agoI'm a fan of this version. It's got more scifi.