Answer:
I eat I live.I breathe I live. I drink I die.
My first is a heir; My second's a snare; my whole is the offspring of fancy; which I sent out of play upon Valentine's day As a token of love to my Nancy.
I am commonly ate before I'm born and after I'm dead.
I begin and have no end and I end all that begins. What am I?
I have hands but cannot clap. 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.