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There are several different kinds, but the one you pick doesn't do its job. What is it?
I am free for the taking. Through all of your life, though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me. Lower light I never see.
I'm not really more than holes tied to more holes. I'm strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole.
Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.
If lightning strikes an orchestra who is the one most likely to get hit?