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 cards,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Lavender, Queen of Queens;

Look upon my Works, ye Undead, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.