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I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
I am a pretty one, fluttering in the pale blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Some try to hide some try to cheat. But time will show we always will meet. Try as you might to guess my name. I promise you'll know when you I do claim.
I am all around you but you cannot see me. I have no throat but you can hear me. Valued during summer but despised in the winter.
I am seen in the water. If seen in the sky I am in the rainbow a jay's feather and lapis lazuli.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?