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The more you take the more you leave behind. What are they?
What has roots that nobody sees and is taller than trees. Up up up it goes and yet never grows?
I am the black child of a white father a wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me even though there is no cause for grief and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
Which word is the odd one out: first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth?
A single syllable do I claim black was my most famous name; Fetal to mortals here below thousands have I slain in a single blow.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?