cumeean

Updated: November 3, 2025

He also showed me a broken hourglass which had been thrown aside by Father Time, together with the old gentleman's gray forelock, tastefully braided into a brooch. In the hour-glass was the handful of sand, the grains of which had numbered the years of the Cumeean sibyl.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")