Epigram on Taher Ben Hosein, Who Was Ambidexter and One-Eyed
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Arabian Poetry, by W. A. Clouston, [1881], at sacred-texts.com
p. 112
EPIGRAM
ON
TAHER BEN HOSEIN,
WHO WAS AMBIDEXTER AND ONE-EYED.
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.
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