English Poetry. Hilaire Belloc. The Hippopotamus. Хилар Беллок.

Hilaire Belloc (Хилар Беллок)

The Hippopotamus

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

Hilaire Belloc’s other poems:

1. On Torture: A Public Singer
2. Ha’nacker Mill
3. Time Cures All
4. Hildebrand
5. Lines For A Christmas Card

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Thomas Eliot (Томас Элиот) The Hippopotamus (“The broad-backed hippopotamus”)

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