Ozymandias

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Ozymandias is a sonnet written by author Percy Shelley. Here are the actual words: 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." It mainly tells about the inevitable fall of all the leaders no matter how powerful they get on their prime. After reading the poem, I saw how true this is. Every leader has a time of decline and there will always be another one who'll rise to replace him. Can you think of a leader who had never fallen from his rise, aside from the ones that are living today? Present a fact that that leader had indeed never fell from power.