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I have roots nobody sees. I am taller than trees. Up, up I go but I never grow. What am I?
I am lighter than air but a hundred people cannot lift me. Careful! I am fragile!
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.
What flies without wings?
I twist and turn and leaves a loop
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?