Answer:
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter.
In marble halls as white as milk, lined with a skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crystal-clear. A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
In this place, people lie, people cry, and people ask why. In this place, people sleep, people weep, and people's solitude, they keep. What is it?
Talks like this, a green wise man does. Guess my clue, you will.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?