Here in GR, there is Water Hot! I indulged in a deep, hot bath this morning, and I couldn't help but remember Bilbo's bath song sung by Pippin in The Fellowship of the Ring(in one of my very favorite chapters -"A Conspiracy Unmasked") :
"Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
Is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
But better is Beer, if drink we lack,
And Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!"
(Those who know me know I can skip the beer part, but everything else is perfect. Except I made no fountains like Pippin did!)
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I sense the line is blurring a little here--correct?
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