7 OLD RIDDLES

1)
Come up and we go,
Go down and we stay.

2)
My second is performed by my first, and, it is thought,
A thief by the marks of my whole may be caught.

3)
I dance to music I cannot hear,
Though I am harmless, I inspire fear.
With the wind and the deer, I am one,
Though slow as a snail, from me you can't run.

4)
Pronounced in Heaven, muttered in Hell,
An echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.
On the edge of the earth it was permitted to rest,
On the edge of death its presence confessed.

5)
Often held, but never touched;
Always wet, but never rusts.
Often bites, but seldom bit,
To use me well, you must have wit.

6)
My first is a creature whose breeding's unclear;
My second a price some must pay.
My whole can be found in the river of Time,
And refers to events of today.

7)
An ever-changing flower with no pattern to bloom,
As likely at sunrise, as at night, as at noon.
When the bulb is grown and thoroughly drowned,
The whole thing shatters, and the plant crashes down.

Answers:

1. Anchor
2. Footstep
3. Shadow
4. The letter "H"
5. Tongue
6. Current (cur - rent)
7. Cloud