Morsels: Ozymandias

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Ozymandias of Egypt
Percy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveller from an antique land

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[gaz25]

Thanks. That was lovely. I think I've read some of Percy Shelley's work... This was nice.

[myrgthful]

Welcome. If you come across anything interesting, toss it my way, k?

[gaz25]

One of my favorites, but everyone knows it, I think:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost, 1920

[myrgthful]

Oh, I meant from Shelley.

And dad-gummit... I was thinking of posting this one up during the next week. ;-)