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Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
What can answer in any language? What can speak without a mouth? What can sing without an ear?
What binds two people yet touches only one?
Though desert men once called me God, today men call me mad. For I wag my tail when I am angry. And growl when I am glad.
It can pierce the best armor and make swords crumble with a rub, yet for all its power It can't harm a wooden club.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?