Answer:
Oh lord! I am not worthy! I bend my limbs to the ground. I cry yet without a sound. Let me drink of waters deep. And in silence I will weep.
I have two eyes in the front and a lot of eyes on my tail
I am so delicious that I require a house to contain me.
When set loose I fly away. Never so cursed as when I go astray.
Curtail me thrice I am a youth; behead me once a snake; complete I'm often used in truth when certain steps you'd take.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.