Answer:
A young man wants to have me but when he has me, he no longer wants me. What am I?
My first though water cures no thirst my next alone has soul and when he lives upon my first he then is called my whole.
It's in your hand though you can not feel it. Only you and time can reveal it.
I have no head and a tail I lack but I do have arms and legs and back; I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot 'tis a beggarly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable) I still should be placed at the head of the table.
Before I grow I'm small. When I'm old I grow tall. When I die I give a mighty fall.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.