Volume 5 — ABU AL-ASWAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Abu al-Aswad bought a native-born slave-girl, who was blind of an eye, and she pleased him; but his people decried her to him; whereat he wondered and, turning the palms of his hands upwards,[114] recited these two couplets:—
They find me fault with her where I default ne’er find, ✿ Save haply that a speck in either eye may show:
But if her eyes have fault, of fault her form hath none, ✿ Slim-built above the waist and heavily made below.
And this is also told of
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