What is it Voiceless it cries Wingless flutters

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What is it? • • Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters

What is it? • • Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters

What is it? • A box without hinges, key, or lid, • Yet golden

What is it? • A box without hinges, key, or lid, • Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

What is it? • Alive without breath, • As cold as death; • Never

What is it? • Alive without breath, • As cold as death; • Never thirsty, ever drinking, • All in mail never clinking.

What is it • Thirty white horses on a red hill, • First they

What is it • Thirty white horses on a red hill, • First they champ, • Then they stand still.

What is this? • This thing all things devours • Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

What is this? • This thing all things devours • Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; • Gnaws iron, bites steel, • Grinds hard stones to meal • Slays kings, ruins towns, • And beats high mountains down

What is it? • It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, • Cannot be

What is it? • It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, • Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. • It lies behind stars and under hills, • and empty holes it fills. • It comes first and follows after, • Ends life, kills laughter.

Wind • • Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters

Wind • • Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters

Egg • A box without hinges, key, or lid, • Yet golden treasure inside

Egg • A box without hinges, key, or lid, • Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Fish • Alive without breath, • As cold as death; • Never thirsty, ever

Fish • Alive without breath, • As cold as death; • Never thirsty, ever drinking, • All in mail never clinking.

Teeth • Thirty white horses on a red hill, • First they champ, •

Teeth • Thirty white horses on a red hill, • First they champ, • Then they stand still.

Time • This thing all things devours • Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; • Gnaws

Time • This thing all things devours • Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; • Gnaws iron, bites steel, • Grinds hard stones to meal • Slays kings, ruins towns, • And beats high mountains down

Darkness • It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, • Cannot be heard, cannot

Darkness • It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, • Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. • It lies behind stars and under hills, • and empty holes it fills. • It comes first and follows after, • Ends life, kills laughter.