Ozymandias

Shaped like a spaceship, the Buzludzha Monument is one of the most controversially beautiful relics of Bulgaria’s communist past. Built in 1981 on the top of the Balkan Mountains to glorify the Communist Party, it was abandoned in 1989, left to the wind, snow, and graffiti artists who turned it into something entirely different. For more information on the Buzludzha Monument and efforts to preserve it, check out the Buzludzha Project website. The poem is a part of Ozymandias 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 pedestal,
these words appear:
«My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on my work, 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.

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