Reading 'Ozymandias' with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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 Published On Oct 12, 2013

In a Zaytuna College video, "How to Read a Book, Part 1", Sh. Hamza discussed 'Ozymandias', a poem by Shelley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
   • How to Read a Book by Shaykh Hamza Yu...  

By the way, Ozymandias was the title of a recent 'Breaking Bad' TV episode. Here's Ozymandias read by Bryan Cranston, the lead of 'Breaking Bad':
   • Ozymandias - As Read by Bryan Cransto...  

Ozymandias
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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. 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.

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