Answer:
Brings the sky a lot closer.
It carries paper of the most important sort but also plastic, I'm glad to report. What is it?
Mary's child slept in one of these
What falls down but never gets hurt?
A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.
Iām grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.