Ozymandias

from ...As Shadows in the Night by Morvidus

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lyrics

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".

-Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

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from ...As Shadows in the Night, released July 28, 2015

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Morvidus London, UK

Morvidus is the one man musical project of Nathaniel Tye, which was begun in late 2012.

The music and lyrics are inspired by art and literature, particularly by the Romantic movement.

Morvidus' name comes from a legendary king of Britain as described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (History of the Kings of Britain). ... more