And as to the curious riddles which India's bards did tell, let us translate one or two, from Jehuda Ha-Levi to show that even into this field of poetic fancy the Jewish mind did wander, and it plucked there fruit as choice as India's bards did ever pluck. Ha-Levi asks, Who solves this:

Eye it has and yet is blind,

Of service it is to human kind;

Raiment it makes, both large and small,

And still itself is bare of all.

(Answer: "The Needle.")

Or this:

Would true friendship ye maintain

Hither come and learn it;

What us would part we cut in twain,