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«Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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cover, cover glass, grain, sand, speak for, The Sand, underneath, upper, uppers
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