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Whilst I was engaged in sitting. I spied the dead carrying the living
My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches.
Mountains will crumble and temples will fall. And no man can survive its endless call.
Although I'm not an insect, some people found me very difficult to exterminate. They called me something like 'insane priest.' The first half of my name means the same as 'scrape,' & my last three letters are a metal. Who am I?
What has 13 hearts but none beat?
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?