Those of you who are especially verbal/linguistic (Word Smart), you may be interested in researching the meaning of the following phrases.
1.   “Like sands through the hourglass…so are the days of our lives”
2.   “A rope of sand”
3.   “The sands are running out”
4.   “To number the sands”
5.   “Sand-blind”
6.   “The sandman is about”
7.   “Sandgropers”

Literature:  Determine the meaning of these verses:
         To see a world in a grain of sand
         And a heaven in a wild flower,
         Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
         And eternity in an hour.
              Blake, William [1757-1827]     Auguries of Innocence  Line 1

         Lives of great men all remind us
         We can make our lives sublime,
         And, departing, leave behind us
          Footprints on the sands of time.               
              Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth [1807-1882]     A Psalm of Life  Stanza 7
 
         Alas! poor duke, the task he undertakes
         Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.
              Shakespeare, William   [1564-1616]     Richard II, II,  ii

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