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For Sport A Wee Riddle

Riddle Me...

Favoured by men, I am found far and wide,
taken from woods and the heights of the town,
From high and from low.
during each day bees brought me through the bright sky skillfully home to a shelter.
Soon after that I was taken by men and bathed in a tub.
Now I blind them and chasten them,
and cast a young man at once to the ground,
and sometimes an old one too.
He who struggles against my strength,
he who dares grapple with me,
discovers immediately that he will hit the hard floor with his back if he persists with such stupidity.
Deprived of his strength and strangely loquacious,
he's a fool,
who rules neither his mind nor his hands nor his feet.
Now ask me, my friends,
who knocks young men stupid,
and as his slave binds them in broad waking daylight?
Yes ask me my name.

For Sport A Wee Riddle