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What force and strength cannot get through. I, with a gentle touch, can do. Many in the street would stand. Were I not a friend at hand.
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
I am so simple that I can only point. Yet I guide men all over the world.
What asks but never answers?
Just head and foot yet never tires of dancing.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.