The hippo loves the waterside
Where it can bathe and swim and glide
And all the little fishes there
Swim away and cry – ‘beware’!
The hippo loves to laze all day
And snooze the winter noon away
He’s never cold, for don’t you see
He needs no quilt like you and me?
![The Whopping Hippo [Illustration by Anup Singh]](/media/poems-57_1.gif)
(C) Swapna Dutta
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