FILK: Ozymandias

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No: HPFGUIDX 130994

Alternative version of "Ozymandias", by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 
discovered engraved onto the side of a desk in Professor Binns' 
History of Magic Classroom. 

"Ozymandias" is, of course, a well-known spell (sometimes 
misspelled "Ozzymanjus"), which can be terrifically handy for 
redesigning the house. The effect is to age the charmed object by 
approximately 5,000 years in a little less than 5 seconds, with no 
need to hire a skip. It is, however, important that the misspelling 
is not allowed to affect pronunciation, as it completely changes the 
spell's effect, turning the charmed object into the roadie of a 
5,000-year-old rock star with a craving for Sunny Delight.

Dedicated to CMC and Ginger, Filkeurs extraordinaires, whose last 
few have been top-notch.


I met a student from the trophy room
Who said: Two vast and prolix lists of kids
Are there, etched in stone. Near them in the gloom
Half broke, a dusty trophy lies, whose cup,
Ornate lip, and corroded silver bloom,
Tell that its winner well his school did serve,
Which yet survives, teaching the hoi-polloi,
The Head who gave it, and the youth with nerve,
And on the trophy's base these words appear:
"My name is Tom, the orphan and Head Boy:
Remember my designs, ye Mudbloods, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay,
Upholding glories past and ancient feats, 
The dusty cluttered shelves stretch far away.

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