Riddle XCI

Riddle

I was once earth, hidden in hard places. Now, I've gained a new name and price from fire, and I am no longer called earth, yet earth comes from me.

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What am I?

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The earth covers me, while the streams are secreted among the grass; I have no banks, and I am carried on wood that once supported wood.

My mother is Earth, and my father is Prometheus; two pointed ears govern me from a hollow belly. In a pitiful fall, my mother divided me.

In the sky among the stars, with earth lying beneath, a skilled traveler moves with art; the path is brief and shows no foothold.

I possess great virtue: I become soft through fire, and dead fire adheres to me. The fire resides within me though it may not always be seen.

Crimson of earth, a splendid color dyed; take care! Behind a prickly hedge, I hide. O happy, could I longer here abide!

Deep water that hides beneath the soil, I cannot emerge without venturing through pierced veins. Painfully do I rise, drawn by the toil of another.

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