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Up on high I wave away but not a word can I say.
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Inside a burning house, this thing is best to make. And best to make it quickly, before the fire's too much to take.
The celebrities of high school were part of this crowd.
Men in skirts blow into these.
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.