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".
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".
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias, 1818
Good luck, Denmark!
It's so grotesque, did Yrma have a hand in the design, 'cos it really is verging on the bogan...
ReplyDeleteTo the point of the poem cited, do you think that maybe Marge is deliberately trying to bring about the end of the Danish monarchy? Knowing that Fred, Mary and Xian don't have what it takes. trying to get the whole country so riled up against this flagrant expenditure and OTT tacky Idi Amin-style largesse that they'll go republican? Or she is really that delusional that the glass coffin is nice and Danes will pay for it happily?
ReplyDeletewe are all going to the same place. perhaps she should be reminded of that
ReplyDeleteMarge, dildos and delusions. That's what I see when I look at this picture-dildos and delusions.
ReplyDeleteAs Ekstra Bladet says, "Crazy Daisy!"
ReplyDeleteWell, it's an appropriate tomb if it is for the last monarch. Why not go out with a bang? Enjoy the rest of your days in Key West, Freddles!
Thing like this only happens in isolated countries like North Korea where people are duped to worship and fear their rulers. How come people in Denmark tolerate those 'royal' jokers? People must take happy pills in Denmark.
ReplyDeleteGot to admit I gave Daise credit for some brains, she paints, designs textiles and is an all rounded intellect, as opposed to the vacuous Mary, but this is too much. As one writer suggested, maybe she is trying to undermine the status of the monarchy, which upon her death, should disappear than give it to the boozer and bogan
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