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 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 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."
Location[]
Ozymandias is found near the Dusky Tome in Misery.
Background and Inspiration[]
Ozymandias is by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Ozymandias was included in version 6.0 with the rest of the Ruptured Towers.
The poem's context in Relics of Hyrule is to allude to Ganon's reign over the Gerudo and the ultimately ephemeral nature of his rule. The poem also serves to reference the original Spirit Tower that may have existed before Misery.