Re: Fwd: [xml-dev] Not using mixed content? Then don't use XML

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

 

The reminder of transience is exciting enough to me.  In some ways I feel like the opening of this project is archaeology in advance.

No, I won't quote Ozymandias yet.  I'm hopeful of another act.

Here's Horace Smith, a friend of Shelley's:

 In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone,

Stands a gigantic leg, which far off throws

The only shadow that the desert knows:

“I am great OZYMANDIAS,” saith the stone,

“The King of Kings; this mighty city shows

“The wonders of my hand.” The city’s gone,

Nought but the leg remaining to disclose

The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder, and some hunter may express

Wonder like ours, when thro’ the wilderness

Where London stood, holding the wolf in chace,

He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess

What powerful but unrecorded race

Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

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