Answer:
Dies half its life. Lives the rest. Dances without music. Breathes without breath.
Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.
The eight of us move forth and back. To protect our king from the foes attack.
A beggar's brother went out to sea and drowned. But the man who drowned had no brother. Who was the beggar to the man who drowned?
Surname of the pilot of the Millennium Falcon.
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.