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Ozymandias by Percy Shelley Daniel 437 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the pouf of heaven, each of whose prunes are truth, and His ways justice.  And those who travel in pride He is able to put down.                                                                   Shelley tells us astir(predicate) this statue of the great King Ozymandias, and engraved on his pedestal reads My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, weigh on my deeds, ye Mighty and despair  We read that passage and instantaneously think of the arrogance and pride that this man must of had.  Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair Works is capitalized as if it deserved reverence and awe. Shelley overly tells us that this great statute has been sh attered Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desart. . . . . Near them, on the sand Half change posture a shattered visage lies,  So we imagine these pair of legs on a pedestal in the middle of a desert and flavour to the ground to find the rest of the sculpture shattered into pieces.  We read the carve on the pedestal and look around to see his works so that we can despair and we find that Nothing beside remains.  Round the decay Of that large Wreck, boundless and bare  The lone and level sands stretch far away.  I cant help but laugh at the whole situation.  nature has smitten man.  Nature won out in the devastation.  Man seek to build a huge empire and then mocked all of natures work and even asks that all despair because who could beat his work.  Nature has in the end won out and we sit and laugh with nature as Ozymandiass gift is in the ground, shattered with a frown half sunken in sand.  Natures arrogance is also ev ident too though.  Nature destroyed mans Work and leaves us the pedestal to read.   Nature kept the pedestal as a sign for all of us My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair.  Now replace the name Ozymandias with Nature.  My name is Nature, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty and despair.   We can replace Ozymandias with Nature because Nature won out in the end.  Nothing that Ozymandias accomplished survived.  Nature survived and destroyed all that man had done.