THE KASÎDAH II, 53, 60

Mansûr was wise, but wiser they
 who smote him with the hurlèd stones;
And, though his blood a witness bore,
 no wisdom-might could mend his bones.

“Eat, drink, and sport; the rest of life’s
 not worth a fillip,” quoth the King;
Methinks the saying saith too much:
 the swine would say the selfsame thing!