The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, mix for ever 1819, Stacey MS.; meet together, Harvard MS. The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; 5 Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and Stacey MS.; In one another’s being 1819, Harvard MS. In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?— II See the mountains kiss high Heaven 10 No sister 1824, Harvard & Stacey MSS.; No leaf or 1819. And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven disdained its 1824, Harvard & Stacey MSS.; disdained to kiss its 1819. If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: 15 is all this sweet work Stacey MS.; were these examples Harvard MS.; are all these kissings 1819, 1824. What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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, 5 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: these words appear] this legend clear B. And on the pedestal these words appear: 10 ‘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.