Answer:
What is put on a table cut but never eaten?
Bright as diamonds, loud as thunder, never still, a thing of wonder. What am I?
I have a head, tail, but no arms and legs. What am I?
Every night I'm told what to do, and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold. What am I?
Against the sun I protect your eyes and am often worn on the face of spies
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.