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Thrawn quotes ‘Ozymandias’ (…and it’s epic)…

"'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...'"Thrawn paused, allowing the words to echo slightly in the large room. "'Stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: and on the pedestal these words appear:'" and Thrawn's voice rose to a shout. "'"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"'"Immediately he returned to a more normal tone. "'Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.'" Thrawn walked back to his chair, sitting down with not a sound, and turned it away from Taar. "Kings and empires rise and fall, colonel. Entropy consumes even the strongest man's efforts, both physical and political. One cannot hope to stop the hurricane, one can merely hope to weather it, to rebuild; and perhaps it will be something even better than what had come before."

—from that UnitySaga (StarTrek/StarWars crossover), done (thank heavens) before the mess of of the MouseEars “canon”/EU catastrophe…