Answer:
I am a seed with three letters in my name. Take away the last two and I still sound the same.
I go around in circles, but always straight ahead, never complain, no matter where I am led.
I am what no man ever yet did see, which never was, but always is to be. What am I?
I go up when the rain comes down
The 8 of us go forth and not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What am I?
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.