1. قد ينادي الوحيد بالجمع ما كا

    ن حبيسا بالحبس لا بالمعاني

    A lone man may be addressed in the plural, so long as he is

    confined by imprisonment, not by meanings.

  2. وغذا ما نشا الضرير خليّا

    من قضا فهو من فضال الزمان

    And when the blind man grows up free

    of fate, he is among time’s remnants.

  3. فذممت الجميع بالاسم لا المع

    نى قياسا كالناس والإنسان

    So I censured them all in name, not in

    meaning, by analogy with “people” and “the human being.”