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A home of wood in a wooded place, but built not by hand. High above the earthen ground, it holds its pale blue gems. What is it?
What has a bell but isn't a church. Is full of air but is not a balloon?
What asks but never answers?
It's like food but water kills it. What is it?
I scribble forms of the finest letter, And repel elements of the harshest weather. I am an arrow-aimer and a dust-breaker.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.