Answer:
What is long and slim, works in light. Has but one eye, and an awful bite?
I have one eye. See near and far. I hold the moments you treasure and the things that make you weep.
Grows from the ground, bushes and grass, leaves of yellow, red and brow, unruly plants, get the axe, trim the hedge back down.
Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again
Pirates put their booty in it.
I am the kind of an ant that's good at math. What am I?