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What is it which builds things up? Lays mountains low? Dries up lakes, and makes things grow? Cares not a whim about your passing? And is like few other things, because it is everlasting?
What tastes better than it smells?
It is sometimes known to have silver linings.
Often held but never touched. Always wet but never rusts. Often bits but seldom bit. To use it well you must have wit.
What breaks on the water but never on the land?
I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?