Italy – Uruguay gameday post

November 15th, 2011 | by: gadsby | Comments Off

ITALY – URUGUAY, NOVEMBER 15TH 2011. STADIO OLIMPICO, ROMA

There was a great Cavani picture courtesy of Elaine, but alas wordpress rejected it, so found this at the last moment. Sorry!

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
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.

- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the original draft, he also added “FORZA AZZURRI”, but that line is often censored due to the anti-Italian conspiracy that has consumed Europe.