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In buckles or lace, I help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner I grow. What am I?
I am in the past never in the future. I don't exist but have existed. I saw what you saw and that is what I will ever see.
I let water fall on you while everyone else stays dry. What am I?
I make everyone blind. You can't see me but I will always come back for you. What am I?
We are little airy creatures all of different voice and features one of us in glass is set. One of us you'll find in jet. Another you may see in tin. And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue it can never fly from you.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.