أَفدي الغَزالَ الّذي في النَّحوِ كلَّمَني

مُناظِراً فاجتَنَيْتُ الشّهدَ مِن شَفَتِهْ

I would sacrifice for the gazelle whose speech in grammar addressed me,

Conversing, and so I gathered honey from his lips,

وارفضّ من عرق من مر جامده

حتَّى وددتُ بأنِّي تِربُ مِنشَفَتِهْ

And refused the dew from those who passed in hardness,

Until I wished that I were the dust of his lips.

فأوردَ الحُججَ المقَبولَ شاهِدُها

مُحَقِّقا لِيريني فضلَ معرِفَتِهْ

So he presented accepted proofs, his witnesses,

Clarifying for me the virtue of his knowledge,

ثمَّ اتفَقْنا على رأيٍ رَضيِتُ بهِ

بالرَّفعُ مِن صِفَتي والنَّصبُ مِن صِفَتِهْ

Then we agreed upon an opinion I was pleased with:

My attribute in the nominative case, and his attribute in the accusative.