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The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
My thunder comes before the lightning. My lightning comes before the clouds. My rain dries all the land it touches.
What goes around and around the wood, but never goes into the wood?
Grows from the ground, bushes and grass, leaves of yellow, red and brow, unruly plants, get the axe, trim the hedge back down.
As I walked along the path I saw something with four fingers and one thumb, but it was not flesh, fish, bone or fowl.
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?