Ozymandian Reflections

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OZYMANDIUS by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on 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.DSCF0113An century-old cemetery on the side of an Alabama highway reminds The Old Lady of the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley.DSCF0108DSCF0101DSCF0103These graves were once marked with carefully cut and carved stones.  Now, just a little more than 100 years later, the cutting and carvings are obliterated by the elements.  Does anyone remember who is buried here?DSCF0107DSCF0105DSCF0112The Kitchens family obviously spent some bucks on a marker that seems solid and permanent.DSCF0104DSCF0100DSCF0109DSCF0110

And yet that granite block will weather and wear just like the others, blurring and then erasing the remembrances so confidently inscribed.

‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”The view from the cemetery

 

6 thoughts on “Ozymandian Reflections

      1. They are [if my topography is well remembered] in the foremost west of the cemetary along route 90. When they have the town days, the graves are adorned with flowers,
        The reenactment of the Civil war is pretty interesting too. When we moved to Madison in 2000, the Chamber of Commerce website started with “During the war of Northern aggression….”and John was verbally reprimanded to ask if the City was still a stronghold of the past. There is also a privately owned cabin where KKK costumes are stored.
        As a Jew, I put on a Christmas decor on the patio, afraid that the house could be egged or covered with tar. Good old days.

      1. 14 looks good. I will put a note on my calendar and we will talk about it later.
        As we say “If you want to make G_D laughs, tell him about your plans!.”

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