FIVE OLD RIDDLES

1)
At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.

2)
I tremble at each breath of air,
And yet can heaviest burdens bear.

3)

A messenger that could not speak,
Bearing a letter that was not written,
Came to a city on a mountain top,
In which all the world did dwell.

4)
My first denotes company;
My second shuns company;
My third summons company;
My whole amuses company.

5)
What houses do always murmur,
Babble and sometimes roar;
Yet those who dwell within them,
Speak not a word?

Answers:

1. Stars
2. Water
3. Dove, olive leaf, Noah's Ark atop Mt. Ararat
4. Conundrum .............. (co - nun - drum)
5. Streams, rivers, and oceans