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Poem by Anonymous


Limerick. “Consider the poor hippopotamus…”


Consider the poor hippopotamus: 
His life is unduly monotonous. 
	He lives half asleep 
	At the edge of the deep –
And his face is as big as his bottom is. 



Anonymous


Anonymous's other poems:
  1. Gathering of Atholl
  2. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
  3. The Bells of Fletching
  4. The Old Scottish Gentleman
  5. Barthram’s Dirge


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