It conquers tigers, lions, raging bulls,
poor men alike and kings;
they all fall, overcome, at its feet,
and then they rise again.
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I added "and then they rise again" at the end because otherwise it seemed like the answer could be "death," but that is not the answer. Also, the original just had "men," but I changed it to "poor men" to heighten the contrast with kings. It would so easy to vary this prompt with anything that sleeps; this one has a nice rhythm, for example, and it would also sound good as a rhyming riddle.
Sleep.
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