Answer:
What surrounds the world, yet dwells within a thimble?
When I get closer my tail grows longer, but when I go away my tail leads the way.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it. Five in the middle is seen. First of all figures, the first of all letters. Take up their stations between. Join all together, and then you will bring before you the name of an eminent king.
Not a burden for its weight and daily carried out, He who takes it wishes it had never come about
What liquid can contain the soul?
What age most travelers have?