In the desert the traveller saw two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Near them laid a half-shrunk shattered visage.

The face of the statue envisaged a frown, wrinkled lip, and a sneer of cold command that was characteristic of the person sculpted.

The face says that the sculptor of the statue knew the attitude of the person sculpted very well to sculpt the exact features.

It was the statue of King Ozymandias who claimed himself to be the ‘king of kings’. It is believed that it was the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II.