Answer:
What is brown and sticky?
What has roots that nobody sees and is taller than trees. Up up up it goes and yet never grows?
Although glory but not at my best. Power will fall to me when the man who made me dies.
The more of me you take, the more I appear behind you. What am I?
First I may be your servant's name; then your desires I may proclaim; And when your mortal life is over hold all your wealth within my power.
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.