3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry  place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
         
                                
                        4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is]  their food.
         
                                
                        5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them  as a thief),
         
                                
                        6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth  and clefts.
         
                                
                        7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered  together.
         
                                
                        8 Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been  smitten from the land.
         
                                
                        9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a  byword.