Answer:
What has banks but no money a bed but no sleep waves but no ocean?
I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I am the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I am a gift beyond measure a matter of course. I am given with pleasure when taken by force.
I welcome the day with a show of light. I steathily came here in the night. I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn but by noon, I'm gone. What am I?
I can be long or short. I can be grown or bought. I can be painted or left bare. My tip can be round or square. (one word)
The 8 of us go forth and not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What am I?
What age most travelers have?