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With a halo of water and a tongue of wood; stone as skin long I stood.
I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. I form in an instant, but I last a lifetime. What am I?
I am a sound made by felines when petted.
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.
I am always around you but often forgotten. I am pure and clean most time but occasionally rotten.
I flow from the Homerβs mouth when he sees doughnuts.