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  • Ozymandias (Obamandias)

    07/26/2015 5:14:35 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 14 replies
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias ^ | 1818 | Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822 I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked 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!'...
  • Obamandias

    10/17/2013 5:53:28 AM PDT · by Claud · 41 replies
    yours truly (original) | 10/17/2013 | Claud
    Obamandias I met a traveller from a bankrupt land
 Who said: Two vast and empty vaults of stone
 Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
 Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
 And fly-ridden lip, and sneer of cold command,
 Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
 Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
 The hand that built that and the heartless Fed:
 And on the teleprompter these words appear:
 "My name is Obamandias, Kenyan king: 
Look on my works, ye Whitey, and despair!" 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that hope and change,...