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I work when I play and play when I work.
A red drum which sounds without being touched, and grows silent, when it is touched.
Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
I am a precious little thing, dancing and eating all the time. Watch me from a distance, so you can feel my warm and gentle love. But don't come to close or my next meal you could be!
Often cooked as fillet, this meat comes from an animal that swims underwater.