...nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
My voice sank deeper than my tongue,
Slowly I told him; the traveller from the antique land -
'Once there was a man who roamed the west,
Whose judgment, fast to proclaim. Men bragged
His lore broke rinks and bows, cry aloud, He boasted! '
Seven words separated us, I am not one in his rank.
This man, Ozymandias! king of kings, he called
He knew well the feel of earth, decays of flesh,
Better than me. we fed on blood: 'stank to nose'
His left footprint, my right; gazelles drank from,
Like any, we parted and swore to see no more.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem