Answer:
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
A thousand colored folds stretch toward the sky. Atop a tender strand, rising from the land, until killed by maiden's hand. Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to say goodbye.
Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals. And hides at night?
If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?
I am free for the taking. Through all of your life, though given but once at birth. I am less than nothing in weight, but will fell the strongest of you if held.
Written on with words of white, Has the color of the night, Is the teacher's best delight, And a student's daily fright