Answer:
I have hands but cannot clap
Dead on the field lie ten soldiers in white killed by one blade yet there was no fight. What are they?
I am gentle enough to soothe your skin, light enough to fly in the sky, strong enough to crack rocks. What am I?
You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?
I am commonly ate before I'm born and after I'm dead.
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.