Read the lines from "A Psalm of Life." Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. The imagery in the lines suggests that

The “footprints on the sands of time” are a metaphor for the lasting mark people leave through their actions. The lines suggest that people can live nobly and be remembered after they are gone, so the imagery supports the idea that great deeds are remembered in history. It does not mainly describe how quickly time passes or compare individual days to grains of sand.

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