<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A hippo at dawn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cracking branches as it rushed in<br>had a shocking kind of thunder to them<br>and where it entered the swollen river<br>I heard the rushing water splashing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at that breaking of day<br>the scene was something primitive<br>as if from the very beginning of mankind<br>while that huge animal lingered with gaping jaws, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">jaws that could open wide enough<br>to snap the small rowing boat in two<br>in which I was crossing the stream</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while like in a kind of dream<br>everything was happening very slowly<br>before suddenly the water boiled<br>as in great might it turned away, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the water swallowed it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397400" data-title="A hippo at dawn de Gert Strydom" data-description="The cracking branches as it rushed in had a shocking kind of thunder to them and where it entered the swollen river I heard the rushing water splashing and at that breaking of day the scene was something primitive as if from the very beginning of..."></div> </div> </div>

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