The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Firdawsī (c. 9401020)Epigram on Sultan Mahmoud
’T
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.