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36571	Anonymous	The Book of Riddles			.txt	text/plain	914	120	97	Yet when I go, my body stands, And when I stand, I lie. My enemies put me oft in fear. Sometimes of wood, yet useful found in trade; The ancients represented time by the figure of a man, with broad wings, spread out, as denoting its flight, or that time is ever on In one hand he held an hour-glass, to show that as the sand, so our time is constantly running; and in the other, a scythe, to let us know that time, like the scythe, levels all. as the back part of the head is bare, so our time is no more. And many in the streets would stand, Yet thou dost me whip, When I'm upright thou dost like me best, Chain'd, and in a dungeon laid: My body is light, my head is white, * Added missing answer for a riddle namely "A Rose."	./cache/36571.txt	./txt/36571.txt