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Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again
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.
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
Always old, sometimes new. Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full. Never pushes, always pulls.
I'm very tempting, so its said, I have a shiny coat of red, and my flesh is white beneath. I smell so sweet, taste good to eat, and help to guard your teeth.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.