The last 5 lines of "ozymandias" by percy bysshe shelley reads: "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." the crumbling statue, "decay," "colossal wreck," "boundless and bare /…lone and level sands" all communicate thematic ideas of time, change, and mutability death and rebirth a mighty ruler’s destructive prowess hell on earth