Answer:
What measures out time until in time all is smashed to it?
Salty water everywhere but not sea in sight.
What get wet while drying
You seek it out, when your hunger is ripe. It sits on four legs, and smokes a pipe.
This is in a realm of true and in a realm false, but you experience me as you turn and toss.
I march before armies a thousand salute me. My fall can bring victory but no one would shoot me. The wind is my lover one-legged am I. Name me and see me at home in the sky.