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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair (2025 audio #6)
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair (2025 audio #6)

Labors of Destruction and Creation

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

No thing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Labor Day. I thought of these lines, from Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias”, as I contemplated the poster of Donald Tr…

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