Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.

Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die.

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If it’s information you seek, come and see me. If it’s pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?

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