Homer's ink

У Гомера иссякли чернила, Когда он сочинял про Ахилла. И сказал он тогда, Вовсе то не беда: Ведь я слеп – ну зачем мне чернила!

А. Дубровский, 2011

Homer ran out of ink when he was writing about Achilles. But he said: "This is no trouble - as I'm a blind man anyway!"(makeshift translation of A. Dubrovski's poem).

On the cliff with Homer

There was an Old Person of Cromer, Who stood on one leg to read Homer; When he found he grew stiff, He jumped over the cliff, Which concluded that Person of Cromer.

E.Lear, 1846