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The faster you run the harder it is to catch me
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood, stone as skin long I stood. What am I?
When I point up, it's bright. When I point down, it's dark. What am I?
I have hundreds of ears but cannot hear a thing. What am I?
I am needed for most animals and hardcover books
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.