I think now, of necessity, in terms of centuries and millenniums, rather than days and months....
"The Coming of the Ice"
G. Peyton Wertenbaker
Pyramids, That for millenniums had withstood the tide Of human things, his storm-breath drove in sand Across that desert where their stones survived The name of him whose pride had heaped them there.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
The nations fall Beneath thy noiseless footstep; pyramids That for millenniums have defied the blast, 20 And laughed at lightnings, thou dost crush to nought.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.