When I think of the Trump administration I think of this poem, with Trump as the statue.
"Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley
I met a traveler 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.”
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Marionville
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Mar 24, 2020
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His wife's writing is better known.
In fact, she could have used Trump as a far more terrifying monster.
Petter
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Mar 23, 2020
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@Novelty In that case you must realise that her name was Harriet not Hellen!
@Novelty @Marionville Married aged 16, died aged 21 having had 3 children. A bit different to today except in certain overly-religious lands.
@Petter Her big mistake was marrying Shelley...he was a “babe magnet” by all accounts..he must have had incredible magnetism, some men do!
@Marionville He and his great pal, Byron, were also into "free love".
@Petter Mad, bad and dangerous to know.....that bad boy?
@Marionville Yet Byron's daughter did a great service to the world of computing. She even wrote the first ever programme and was Charles Babbage's collaborator.
@Petter Yes....Ada Lovelace, she got her mathematical brains from her mother Annabella Wentworth (Lady Byron) who was also a mathematician.
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