1. Strip yourself bare of self, become
Your own critic; look at all you do

2. With eyes alert for pain. How hard we hit
Ourselves! Our voices can bring ourselves down too.

3. Stand in your own place, look at yourself,
Become your own impartial judge; just see

4. Yourself with eyes that, like the wasp, can kill
Sibawayh as his critic did, fatally.