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Ozzis

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Messages Posted (The HBO Forum Archive): 13 Most Recent Post: 2/28/05 6:32 p.m.

My name is Ozzis, as can plainly be seen.

I live in Canada, in the east end of Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. (That's the capital of Canada for those of you who don't know.)

My name is an abbreviation of Ozymandias, from a poem written by PB. Shelly called "I Am Ozymandias". A very moving and meaningful poem, if you ask me.

Here it is...

I met a traveler 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 upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822

If you can't understand what it means, it is basically someone finding the ruins of an ancient and powerful civilization, in the middle of the desert, forrgotten. At the foot of an ancient statue, there is a pedestal which bears a message from the ancient civilization's king. In a simple version, it says, "Read this and weep, and kneel before my accomplishments!" It is a message to other powerful rulers at what this King has built. His civilization now lies in ruins, forgotten. We might think of ourselves as powerful, grand and mighty, but in the end, after many years, our famous works might one day be forgotten, and lie in ruins as well.

Just something to think about...

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