Every Grain of Sand

Dylan included this on his 1985 album Biograph. In the notes to that album he wrote, "That was an inspired song that came to me. It wasn't really too difficult. I felt like I was just putting words down that were coming from somewhere else, and I just stuck it out."

Dylan became a born-again Christian a few years before this was released. Like most of the album, religion is a major theme in this song.

This was partly inspired by the following lines from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour