Methought I was a billow in the crowd <br />Of common men, that stream without a shore, <br />That ocean which at once is deaf and loud; <br />That I, a man, stood amid many more <br />By a wayside..., which the aspect bore <br />Of some imperial metropolis, <br />Where mighty shapes—pyramid, dome, and tower-- <br />Gleamed like a pile of crags--<br /><br />Percy Bysshe Shelley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/methought-i-was-a-billow-in-the-crowd/
