كَلَّت لِساناً سَقيماً مِن تَصرفه

وصارت لآلي عقودِ النظم منثورا

A sickly tongue grew weary under his handling;

And the pearls in the necklaces of verse became scattered.

أعرى القضايا عن الإنتاج منطقه

تصريفهُ قلبَ المضمومَ مَكسورا

His logic stripped propositions of their power to yield conclusions;

His inflection turned the ḍamma-marked into the kasra-marked—the joined into the broken.