"…lone and level sands stretch far away" (14)
Nature has the final victory in this poem: the statue is almost gone, having suffered the same fate as the civilization that produced it.
Ozymandias's empire once "stretch[ed] far away," but now it is nature – embodied by the "lone and level sands" – that extends its empire. Interestingly, the sands are "lone" even though there is a statue still there, as if the statue is so insignificant relative to nature that it is almost not worth mentioning.
The lone and level of sands outlast the statue juxtaposed to the power ans ego of the statue.Sand is iconic of time
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