This was the creature that I had seen supporting the God of Israel.
Beside the river Chebar.
Now where had I heard something like this name in a tale.
Singing this song, a bold hippopotamus was standing one day on the banks of the cool Shalimar.

My granddaughter joined in, mud, mud,
Glorious mud.
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So follow me, follow down to the hollow and there let us wallow in glorious mud .

So what was the River Chebar, what has it taught.
Apparently in Ezekiel it’s a canal East of Babylon.
But the mind skips from unbidden thought to thought.
So was this something theological to act on.

No, just a pointless meandering of the mind.
But do not be cross, please be kind.