Something Hard and Horrible

Could this be the densest bit of look-up-able words? My criteria are slightly different from Blackwelder’s who concordanced only nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; I have been throwing in some prepositions and such when appropriate. But this one! Dense as my baking. Gosh. Should I also do an entry for all? It’s an adjective, pronoun, adverb, and conjunction.

[05.055] This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

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