And push away my feet, and make my name

A bye-word and a mockery, which was erst

Set to the harp in song.

Because my wealth

God hath resumed, they who ne'er dared to claim

Equality with even the lowest ones

Who watch'd my flock, they whom my menials scorned,

Dwellers in hovels, feeding like the brutes

On roots and bushes of the wilderness,

Despise me, and in mean derision cast