TO TAHER BEN HOSIEN[14]

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 chang'd to man.

[14] Taher Ben Hosien was ambidexter and one-eyed and, strange to say,

the most celebrated general of his time.

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