Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley says the following in a poem titled Ozymandias:

"And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on 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."

The king Ozymandias is declaring that all that remains of his kingdom is this pedestal that is decaying in the sand. And, indeed, that is what remains of the kingdoms of this world. But the church remains forever . . . it is a lasting kingdom!