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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.
Environmentalists want to keep this from drying.
Never ahead, ever behind, yet flying swiftly pastΝΎ For a child I last forever, for adults I'm gone too fast.
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