![]() ![]() The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon.I’m dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood. Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud.Yet few of them would stand, I’m certain, Kings and lords and christians raised them.Kings and queens may cling to power and the jester’s got his call,īut, as you may all discover, the common one outranks them all. ![]() Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid.īefore I came, the world was darker, colder, sometimes, rougher, trueīut though I might make living easy, I’m good at killing people too. I drift forever with the current down these long canals they’ve made,.One by one we fall from heaven down into the depths of past,Īnd our world is ever upturned so that yet some time we’ll last.Why doesn’t a mountain covered with snow catch cold?.Forward I’m heavy, but backwards I’m not.A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within.What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?.And yet within that very place, my face you often see. You saw me where I never was and where I could not be.The apparatus of the dark to ignorance revealed. Of mansions never quite disclosed and never quite concealed I am, in truth, a yellow fork from tables in the sky,īy inadvertent fingers dropped the awful cutlery.I broke her neck and drank her blood and left her standing empty. As I went over London Bridge I met my sister Jenny,.What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?.What happens when you throw a yellow rock into a purple stream?.After he gets halfway, he’s walking out of the forest. How far will a blind dog walk into a forest?.It cannot be seen, it weighs nothing, but when put into a barrel, it makes it lighter.Join all together, and then you will bring Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,įirst of all figures, the first of all letters,.What the miser spends and the spendthrift savesĠ in a house, but 1 in a shelter. At the sound of me, men may dream or stamp their feet,Īt the sound of me, women may laugh or sometimes weep.You heard me before, yet you hear me again,.Glittering points that downward thrust,.I am in the rainbow, a jay’s feather,and lapis lazuli. I am seen in the water if seen in the sky,.Each morning I appear to lie at your feet,Īll day I will follow no matter how fast you run,.Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last, lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights - A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights.The frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning “tail-less”) and usually makes noises at night during its mating season. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. One is sitting down, and will never get up. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. You throw away the outside and cook the inside.What’s black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you’re all through with it?.What English word has three consecutive double letters?.What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?.The more you have of it, the less you see.The one that uses it never knows that he’s using it. ![]() What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?.By day they are lost without being stolen. At night they come without being fetched.And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?.I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space.It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening.The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. ![]()
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