Answer:
What is long and slim, works in light. Has but one eye, and an awful bite?
It has no top or bottom, but it can hold flesh, bones, and blood all at the same time.
The sharp slim blade, that cuts the wind. What is it?
When it is alive we sing, when it is dead we clap our hands. What is it?
I appear in the morning. But am always there. You can never see me. Though I am everywhere. By night I am gone, though I sometimes never was. Nothing can defeat me. But I am easily gone.
I’m grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.