1. مُسْتصغَرُ الذْنبِ إن عُدّتْ إساءتُهُ

    وكَلْمُهَا في الحشَا يَدْمَى ويَنْقَرِفُ

    A fault deemed slight, if its harm is reckoned,

    while its wound bleeds and reopens in the heart,

  2. مثلُ القَذاةِ بعينِ المرءِ يَحقِرُها

    ودَمعُهُ أبداً من وخْزِها يكِفُ

    is like a mote in a man's eye, which he scorns,

    yet his tears drip endlessly from its sting.