Answer:
What is the freedom of birds and the pen of old men?
This is needed both for courage and hardcover books.
I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard. Amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass.
Plant whose name sounds like a dish full of dairy spread.
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?