Answer:
It flavors your food and divides the year up. What is it?
He's small but he can climb a tower.
What flies forever, rests never?
Take it and you will lose or gain more than all the others.
What is broken if you say its name?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.