Answer:
Every night I'm told what to do and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold
I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
I stay where I am when I go off. What am I?
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
Born of sorrow, grow with age, you need a lot of me to be a sage. What am I?
No matter how little or how much you use me, you change me every month.