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They come to witness the night without being called, a sailor's guide and a poet's tears. They are lost to the sight each day without the hand of a thief.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
I saw the dead bring forth the living. I saw the living bring forth the dead. What did I see?
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.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?