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Which line of this excerpt from "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley reflects the theme that art alone can last forever?
"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."

The line nothing beside remains, Round the decay, reflects the theme that art alone can last forever.

Explanation:

The poem Ozymandias by Percy Shelley talks about the Egyptian King Ramesses foolish desire to immortalize himself by building a statue of himself.

The line nothing beside remains, round the decay says, that art alone can last forever as, even after the king dies, his expressions had been copied accurately in the statue.

After the statue was broken, what was left from the broken statue, the face, depicted the king's expressions and emotions even after he died. So even after the king's death, his life gone and decayed ,the statue as an art still lives on.

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