...kills reason itself.130 In On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 1655, Milton wrote: John Mifton Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget...

...accusation could be brought but that of steadfast adherence to their religious convictions — " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold " — he meant, perhaps, not only those superior Alps which overlook Switzerland, but those wherever...

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...angered by a recent political massacre, he employs the sonnet form for an unexpected subject: 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...

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...Talking to God is almost always praise or prayer. Or, as in Milton's sonnet, an urgent request: Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold . . . (MILTON, "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont") For the Romantic poets, apostrophe and personification...

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