The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God work…

T. S. Eliot
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.43, Faber & Faber
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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2015). The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, p.43, Faber & Faber

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