but no one was able to do it. the king said, "the third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity." then said the shepherd boy, "in lower pomerania is the diamond mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over."