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I'm tall in the morning and short in the noon. I disappear at night but I will be back soon.
If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter.
Round as a button, deep as a well. If you want me to talk, you must first pull my tail.
A serpent swam in a silver urn, A golden bird did in its mouth abide, The serpent drank the water, this in turn, Killed the serpent. Then the gold bird died.
Ripped from my mother's womb. Beaten and burned, I become a blood thirsty killer.
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.