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Glittering points that downward thrust. Sparkling spears that never rust.
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears.
Creatures of power, creatures of grade, creatures of beauty, creatures of strength. As for their lives, they set everything's pace. For all things must come to live. Under their emerald embraceย Either in their life or in their death.
At night I come without being fetched. By day I am lost without being stolen.
Crooked as a rainbow, and slick as a plate, Ten thousand horses can't pull it straight.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.