What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes
And yet never grows?
Answer: Mountain
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless 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
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.
Answer: Fish
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.
Answer: Time
A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
Answer: Egg
No legs lay on one-leg, two-legs sat near on three-legs, four legs got some.
Answer: Fish on a little table, a man at table sitting on a stool while the cat has the bones.
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
Answer: Teeth
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place
Not in high place."
Answer: Sun on the daisies
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
Answer: The letter E
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