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Muttanabi des ignates them as the white and the corners of the eye in which parts the sense of sight does not exist. He also delicately hints that Kafur’s color is superior to that of the white. ft ft ft ft But if Al-Muttanabi was shrewd, [Kafur was shrewder. A master of men he easily saw through the poet, and delayed the fulfillment of his promises. At last, Muttanabi, weary of waiting, sent Kafur the following lines, thus revealing himself in his true light: “Who could teach noble sentiments to this castrated Negro? his white masters or his ancestors who were hunted like wild beasts; or his ears bleeding under the hands of the coppersmiths; or the price set upon his head when none would give two oboles to purchase him? “But so it is! The best of the whites are incapable of honor or noble deed. How, then, can any be expected of a black eunuch? “A Negro whose lip is half as large as himself and whom they style the moon of darkness. 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