Shorter Pieces of Arabian Poetry: Epigram on Taher Ben Hosein, Who Was Ambidexter and One-Eyed

Arabian Poetry · 1 passage

A PAIR of right hands and a single dim eye Must form not a man, but a monster, they cry: Change a hand to an eye, good Taher, if you can, And a monster perhaps may be changed to man.

Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file isl/arp/arp039.htm.