and the reason it was never completed are irretrievably lost in R o m a n t i c poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to write his

e his f a m o u s lines:
the r e m o t e past. A n abandoned stone god, the statue seems to " O n the sand, / Half sunk, a shattered visage lies . . . / A n d on
symbolize the fall of Egypt's great and long-lived civilization. the pedestal these w o r d s a p p e a r : / ' M y n a m e is Ozymandias,
It was just such a statue, one of Ramses II, that inspired the K i n g of Kings: / L o o k o n m y works, y e M i g h t y , and despair!' "