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They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
What measures out time. Until in time all is smashed to it?
What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through with it?
What breaks on the water but never on the land?
What word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end?
What never gets any wetter no matter how hard it rains?