...lines of our own Milton, whose muse was inspired by the distant report of their sufferings: " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...cold : Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans, ' Who...

...with him, and sing in endless morn of light ! Milton. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.' AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old,4 When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans...

...faithfulness to the truth and to their sufferings from the fury of their Papal persecutors : — " Avenge, 0 Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...Alpine mountains, cold ; Even them who kept Thy truth BO pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not : in Thy book record theirjgroana,...

...well known, and so universally admired : — ' Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bone3 Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them, who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans, Who...

...deep-toned harp of the King of Judah. " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them, who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans, Who...

...troubling, and the weary are at rest. " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scauered on the Alpine mountains cold — Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our •athers worshipped stocks and stones : * " The Irish Church never acknowledged the supremacy...

...Milton wrote on this massacre : — "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose hone> Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not. In thy book record their groans, Who...

...beautiful lines of Milton : — " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd ou the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans, Who...

...they sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow-men ! Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ! •as the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred...

...dark ages they were the persecuted Albigenses and Waldenses, of whom the poet has sung, "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;" the Lollards, in our own country,, the martyrs and reformers of our church, and all who in their spirit...