When you started this feature, the link to Whinfield went to the original quatrain, but for months now it has just gone to the first page, and the reader has to search for the right poem. Is there a way to restore the previous practice?
The fish said to the duck, in agitation,
If the water leaves its channel, will it return?
The duck said, when you and I have become kababs,
After my death let it be a river or wine.
When you started this feature, the link to Whinfield went to the original quatrain, but for months now it has just gone to the first page, and the reader has to search for the right poem. Is there a way to restore the previous practice?
Bring back Omar Khayyam.
It means:
Oh take the cash and let the credit go,
Nor heed the warning of a distant drum.
My understanding of the literal meaning:
The fish said to the duck, in agitation,
If the water leaves its channel, will it return?
The duck said, when you and I have become kababs,
After my death let it be a river or wine.