Answer:
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
I am the beginning of eternity the end of time and space the beginning of every end the end of every place.
I can be hairy and itchy all over. I can be the scariest thing you have ever seen. I stand in the middle of nowhere, hanging on a stick. What am I?
I have no head and a tail I lack but I do have arms and legs and back; I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot 'tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable) I still should be placed at the head of the table.
I am the outstretched fingers that seize and hold the wind. Wisdom flows from me in other hands. Upon me are sweet dreams dreamt my merest touch brings laughter.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.