Answer:
Face with a tree, skin like the sea. A great beast I am. Yet vermin frightens me.
It is a big and bulky mammal, And has a trunk just like a tree. Will store water in its nose, Which is long and like a hose.
I'm a lion with a human head. Guess my Riddle or you'll be dead.
A pony trots his way through the world on these.
It's small but larger than a bee, And agile as a flea. It humms but does not buzz, And it's not covered with fuzz. It is a small collector, Of juicy flower nectar.
What is it that no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be?