And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Of all the poems we were taught in grade school/ high school, I never cared for any of them until this one! Or since. I even partially remember some of it...
This statue needs a name tag or I’m not certain it is really Ozymandias.
ReplyDeleteYou think it's Harrietmandias ?
ReplyDeleteWell played sir!
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ReplyDeleteLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition[
Of all the poems we were taught in grade school/ high school, I never cared for any of them until this one! Or since. I even partially remember some of it...
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