Answer:
The land was white the seed was black it'll take a good scholar to riddle me that. What is it?
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall but cannot climb!
You heart it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
You’ll have me at night and if you remove the first letter I denote the top, such as on a train
I can only be played on a windy day