Ozymandias

There's a poem recited in the beginning of this film called "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley. If you haven't read it, I think you should. This movie makes two references to it: in the beginning and again at the end where Wes talks about kings.

I think it's the best part of the film, because it tells the story of Dillon. Does anyone know if Ozymandias is mentioned in the original Thomas Hardy book?

I met a traveller 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 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".