And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
(Darkness)
I'm sometimes strong and sometimes weak,
But I am nobody's fool.
For there is no language I can't speak
Though I never went to school.
(Echo)
I am something that no one has ever seen,
But many have heard me,
And I won't speak unless I'm spoken to.
(Echo)
As long as I live I eat,
But when I drink I die.
(Fire)
Give it food and it will live,
Give it water and it will die.
(Fire)
I can be touched
But I hurt those who touch me
I move swiftly through a dry forest
But die in a mountain stream
Where I pass I leave a black shroud.
(Fire)
Goes over all the hills and hollows,
Bites hard, but never swallows.
(Frost)
You'll find me in the morning
And also late at night,
You need warm clothes when I'm about
So wrap up snug and tight,
I make patterns on your window,
I turn the grass white, too,
Now read the first two lines again
And then you'll have a clue.
(Frost)
What lives in winter,
Dies in summer,
And grows with its root upwards?
(Icicle)
You spread this on cake.
It is something you eat.
It begins with an I.
Taste it – it's sweet!
(Icing)
Fire won't burn me,
Water won't drown me
Wherever I am it's cold all around me.
(Ice)