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I am gold and can be black and white I’m a symbol for a nation when freedom took flight.

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We are little airy creatures all of different voice and features one of us in glass is set. One of us you’ll find in jet. Another you may see in tin. And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue it can never fly from you.
In wealth I abound; in water I stand; as a fencer I’m valued all over the land; at Venice I’m famous; by farmers I’m prized; respected by law yet huntsmen despised; consternation and ruin ensue when I break; And the beasts of the forest advantage won’t take.
Every dawn begins with me. At dusk I’ll be the first you see and daybreak couldn’t come without. What midday centers all about. Daises grow from me I’m told. And when I come I end all code but in the sun I won’t be found. Yet still each day I’ll be around.
Although a human shape I wear Mother I never had; And though no sense nor life I share in finest silks I’m clad. By every miss I’m valued much beloved and highly prized; still my cruel fate is such by boys I am often despised.
I am the black child of a white father a wingless bird flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me even though there is no cause for grief and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
They took me from my mother’s side where I was bravely bred and when to age I did become they did cut off my head. They gave to me some diet drink that often made me mad but it made peace between two kings and made two lovers glad.
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I’m found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev’ry gay toper knows it well.
There’s not a kingdom on the earth I haven’t traveled over and over and though I know not whence my birth yet when I come you know my roar. I through the town do take my flight and through the fields and meadows green and whether it be day or night I neither am nor can be seen.
Though it be cold I wear no clothes the frost and snow I never fear; I value neither shoes nor hose And yet I wander far and near: My diet is forever good I drink no cider port nor sack what Providence doth send for food I neither buy nor sell nor lack.
I have no head and a tail I lack but I do have arms and legs and back; I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot ’tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable) I still should be placed at the head of the table.

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