Answer:
We are five little objects of an everyday sort, You will find us all in a tennis court.
What points the way without a hand. It floats on water but exists on land?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.
My first is in blood and also in battle. My second is in acorn, oak, and apple. My third and fourth are both the same. In the center of sorrow and twice in refrain. My fifth starts eternity ending here. My last is the first of last, Oh Dear.
What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.