AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 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... The Little gleaner - Page 215publié par - 1872Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Simon Jarvis - 2006 - 300 pages
...55 There is also of course an allusion to Milton's sonnet on the massacre of the Piedmontese, 'Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones.' John Milton, Complete Shorter Poems, ed. John Carey (London: Longman,... | |
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