Answer:
When the son of the water returns to the parent, it dies. What is it?
I am the red tongue of the earth, that buries cities.
Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, a lady's delight.
What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
My first is a body of water. My second is me. My third came before. My fourth before all three. My fifth sounds like my first. My sixth is in a lake. Put all six together to make an animal that will keep you awake.
Iām grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.