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[1949] 

Monday - (night, raining)

Dearest wife and EOHIPPUS, 

(Eohippus is something I read about in a poem by Vierick - A beautiful poem called "LOVE Song to Eohippus". Under the title there's this note: Dictionary definition: a Eohippus, Greek for down horse, small graceful prehistoric ancestor of modern equine family; size of rabbit; had four toes, no hoofs")

The first verse says: 
Dance, dance in this museum case
Ballet-star of our mammal race, 
Attar and avatar of grace
Sweet Eohippus "down horse" etc. 

Here's a translation of a Babylonian frieze describing - in 670 B.C. - the King.

"I, the great king, the powerful king, king of the world, king of Assyria, the king whose path was a cyclone, whose battle was a flaming sea, I'm powerful, all powerful, exalted, almighty, majestic. all important in power."  






Transcription Notes:
Eohippus, also called dawn horse, extinct group of mammals that were the first known horses.