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I count time, but have no end. Tick tick, but I am not a clock. What am I?
What has wings, but can not fly. Is enclosed, but can outside also lie. Can open itself up, or close itself away. Is the place of kings and queens and doggerel of every means. What is it upon which I stand? Which can lead us to different lands.
It can pierce the best armor and make swords crumble with a rub, yet for all its power It can't harm a wooden club.
My first is nothing but a nameอพ my second is more smallอพ my whole is of so little fame it has no name at all.
Gets rid of bad ones, short and tall. Tightens when used, one size fits all.
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.