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Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.
It doesn't live within a house, nor does it live without. Most will use it when they come in, and again when they go out.
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
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