Color me slow, but I just found out that Ozymandias was Rameses II

Sigh. I guess I just read the wrong stuff. Anyway, here is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem:

Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. 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 upon 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.

Rameses II or Ramses II if you prefer, was apparently the Pharoah of biblical fame...or infamy...whichever...Google the dude if you want to know more.

He seems to have been a big spender: built more temples than anyone else, and fought big wars. He and Dubya would likely get along, altho RamMan had eight wives and a pile of concubines, so they might have had something to argue about.

Thanks to Peter Robinson of The Corner on National Review Online for finally cluing me in. Now I think I'll go hide in my cave for awhile.