Answer:
What goes up but never comes down?
When they are caught, they are thrown away. When they escape, you itch all day.
What can burn the eyes, sting the mouth, yet be consumed?
Always wax, yet always wane: I melt, succumbed to the flame. Lighting darkness, with fate unblest, I soon devolve to shapeless mess.
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
The virgin gave birth to a child and threw away the blanket.