Answer:
What can answer in any language? What can speak without a mouth? What can sing without an ear?
I crawl on the earth. And rise on a pillar.
A beacon from home to guide your way. It can be a lifesaver on a stormy day. What is it?
It is an arctic double breasted formal wear.
You use a knife to slice my head. And weep beside me when I am dead.
Black we are and much admired. Many seek us if they are tired. We tire the horse, and comfort man, and turn White when we've fulfilled your plan.