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You heart it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
What can be underwater, under fire, on fire and taking water all at the same time?
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
We are five little objects of an everyday sort, You will find us all in a tennis court.
A slow, solemn square-dance of warriors feinting. One by one they fall, warriors fainting, thirty-two on sixty-four.
Both old people and owls are said to be possessing this trait