Poem by Hilaire Belloc

The Hippopotamus

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten ’em.

1. To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
2. Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale
3. Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
4. To Dives
5. The Fanatic

Thomas Eliot The Hippopotamus ("The broad-backed hippopotamus")

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