Reminds me so much of this well known verse This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stone

Reminds me so much of this well known verse This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.