The Modern Ozymandias
The Modern Ozymandias
The Shelley poem adapted by Elton Camp
There was a stadium at Pennsylvania State
Where two strong and trunkless legs now stand
Near them, on the ground, a fallen visage lies
Wrinkled brow and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which survive, stamped on these lifeless things
The beady eyes that ever looked the other way
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Joe Paterno, the coach of coaches
Look on my works ye administrators and despair
Nothing of that colossal wreck now remains
The integrity of a university forever damaged
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