Ozymandias by Horace Smith
b'Horace Smith read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\nOzymandias\\nby Horace Smith (1779-1849) \\nIn Egypt\'s sandy silence, all alone, \\n Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws \\n The only shadow that the Desart knows:\\u2014 \\n"I am great OZYMANDIAS ," saith the stone, \\n "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows \\n"The wonders of my hand."\\u2014 The City\'s gone,\\u2014 \\n Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose \\nThe site of this forgotten Babylon. \\nWe wonder,\\u2014and some Hunter may express \\nWonder like ours, when thro\' the wilderness \\n Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, \\nHe meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess \\n What powerful but unrecorded race \\n Once dwelt in that annihilated place.'