...close my account of the Waldenses and Albigenses. " On the late Massacre in Piedmont.'' " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Kven them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, *...

...following noble sonnet from the pen of Milton describes the sufferings of the Waldenses : — " 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 worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy hook record their groans Who were...

...in connection with this massacre that Milton wrote the well known and beautiful lines : " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept the truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones. Forget...

...Filicaja. That sublime invocation of vengeance upon the persecutors of the Waldenses, « Avenge, o Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains coldmay be compared without fear with any Italian Sonnet of a similarly grave and solemn character,...

...ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd 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...

...NINTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME. Avenge, O Lord, thy slanghter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our futhers worahipp'd stocks and stouea, Forjret not : in thy hook record their groans Who...

...which their forefathers had avowed from generation to generation, from time immemorial. " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold." So sung Milton in the year 1655, after the appalling massacre of the Vaudois in that year. Again, the...

...rest. And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. II. — ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT. 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...

...his teeth, after one narrative of bloody religious tyranny, the prayer of Milton's sonnet: "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. " More habitually, however, he sat before us in...

...the most nearly approaches the " Arise O God, let Thine enemies be scattered" of David— " 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 stone*. Forget not : in thy book record their groans." DEC.,...