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Can someone post the complete original edition of 'Ozymandias'?

Johnny Considering that the poem was first published in 1817 and has long, long since entered the copyright-free public domain, here it is:

🙤 Ozyman…moreConsidering that the poem was first published in 1817 and has long, long since entered the copyright-free public domain, here it is:

🙤 Ozymandias 🙦
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 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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How long does it take to read 'Ozymandias'?

Johnny 0h12m—A little over ten minutes, per a reading of the 1999 Illustrated Hardcover edition with ISBN 9789775325822 which includes additional context. If…more0h12m—A little over ten minutes, per a reading of the 1999 Illustrated Hardcover edition with ISBN 9789775325822 which includes additional context. If you're reading the barebones edition of the poem, it should only take a minute or two.(less)

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