’Tis said our monarch’s liberal mind
Is like the ocean unconfined.
Happy are they who prove it so;
’Tis not for me that fact to know:
I’ve plunged within its waves, ’tis true,
But not a single pearl could view.
Is like the ocean unconfined.
Happy are they who prove it so;
’Tis not for me that fact to know:
I’ve plunged within its waves, ’tis true,
But not a single pearl could view.
Ferdowsi (Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi; also transliterated as Firdawsi, Firdusi, Firdausi) (935 - 1020) Iran
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Source: The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of all Ages and Nations, Vol. XV, Lionel Strachey, et al., eds. The Review of Reviews Company, 1906
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