May 18th
On Visit Your Relatives Day,
Go round to the homes of your kin
Who’ll meanwhile be wending their way
Round to yours, so your kin won’t be in.
✎✎ ✐✐
Wake! For today was born Omar Khayyam,
Who lived in Iran and not in Siam.
He was good at Rubaiyat and most things.
Polymaths often are. Not that I am.
Illustrations:
Visit Your Relatives Day cartoon by Emilie Vercruysse
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by M. V. Dhurandhar ● Public Domain
Go round to the homes of your kin
Who’ll meanwhile be wending their way
Round to yours, so your kin won’t be in.
✎✎ ✐✐
Wake! For today was born Omar Khayyam,
Who lived in Iran and not in Siam.
He was good at Rubaiyat and most things.
Polymaths often are. Not that I am.
Illustrations:
Visit Your Relatives Day cartoon by Emilie Vercruysse
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by M. V. Dhurandhar ● Public Domain
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Daily Doggerel by Ian Graham and Emilie Vercruysse. Non-commercial re-use of this material, provided that it is unaltered and is attributed, is hereby licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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