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I have roots that no one sees and I am taller than trees. Up, up I go, but never do I grow. What am I?
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.
I am a food with 5 letters. If you remove the first letter I am a form of energy. Remove two and Iām needed to live. Scramble the last 3 and you can drink me down.
I stink in living but when dead smells good.
In buckles or lace, I help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner I grow. What am I?
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.