D. Power and greatness will not last long.
Step-by-step explanation:
- The speaker met a traveler “from an antique land,” who told him a story about the ruins of a statue in the desert of his native country.
- The two vast legs of stone stand without a body, and near them a massive, crumbling stone head lies “half sunk” in the sand. He said the statue’s face had the emotions.
- The memory of those emotions survives "stamped" on the lifeless statue, even though both the sculptor and his subject are both now dead. On the pedestal of the statue appear the words, “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings.