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What has roots as nobody sees,Is taller than trees,Up, up it goes,And yet never grows?
Answer: mountain
Thirty white horses on a red hill,First they champ,Then they stamp,Then they stand still.
Answer: teeth
Voiceless it cries,Wingless it flutters,Toothless bites,Mouthless mutters.
Answer: wind
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.It lies behind stars and under hills,And empty holes it fills.It comes first and follows after,Ends life, kills laughter.
Answer: darkness
A box without hinges, key, or lid,Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
Answer: egg
Alive without breath,As cold as death;Never thirsty, ever drinking,All in mail never clinking.
Answer: fish
This thing all things devours:Birds, beast, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down.
Answer: time
You feel it, but never see it and never will.
Answer: heart
You must keep it after giving it.
Answer: your word
As light as a feather, but you can't hold it for ten minutes.
Answer: your breath
Has a mouth but does not speak, has a bed but never sleeps.
Answer: river
Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!
Answer: water
You break it even if you name it!
Answer: silence
You feed it, it lives, you give it something to drink, it dies.
Answer: fire
A red drum which soundsWithout being touched,And grows silent,When it is touched.
Answer: heart
Two horses, swiftest travelling,Harnessed in a pair, andGrazing ever in placesDistant from them.
Answer: eyes
A harvest sown and reaped on the same dayIn an unplowed field,Which increases without growing,Remains whole though it is eatenWithin and without,Is useless and yetThe staple of nations.
Answer: war
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