In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, we see that everything - both tangible and intangible - is finite. The main subject of the poem, the prideful king Ozymandias, boasts of his empire's prestige that would make any "mighty" man who "look[ed] on [his] works [...] despair" (11). However, the "despair" the traveler who found Ozymandias's ruined statue should have felt was not there since "[n]othing beside remain[ed]" except the "lone and level sands" (11-14). Time carried away the empire and legacy of Ozymandias for how can a man be the "King of Kings" if he has no kingdom (10)? To Ozymandias, the works that his kingdom bore were the reason behind his greatness, but, like his own life, the sands of time carried them away. In the