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They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.
You can read it both ways, I wearΝΎ One way it's a number, reversed a snare.
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
I do not breathe, but I run and jump. I do not eat, but I swim and stretch. I do not drink, but I sleep and stand. I do not think, but I grow and play. I do not see, but you see me everyday.
In your fire you hear me scream, creaking and whining, yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?