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When you stop and look, you can always see me. If you try to touch, you cannot feel me. I cannot move, but as you near me, I will move away from you.
I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night.
What must be in the oven yet can not be baked? Grows in the heat yet shuns the light of day? What sinks in water but rises with air? Looks like skin but is fine as hair?
Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.
In buckles or lace, they help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner they grow.
I have two eyes in the front and a lot of eyes on my tail