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Twigs and spheres and poles and plates. Join and bind to reason make.
A precious stone, as clear as diamond. Seek it out while the sun's near the horizon. Though you can walk on water with its power, try to keep it, and it'll vanish in an hour.
I'm not man's best friend, I'm their enemy, I can mark your end, yet you do not see me, I am very small, but very tough, If you have me, then you have it rough.
What flies without wings? What passes all things? What mends all sorrow? What brings the morrow?
I walked and walked and at last I got it. I didn't want it. So I stopped and looked for it. When I found it, I threw it away.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.