...Christian, shall 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, *...

...The following noble sonnet from the pen of Milton describes the sufferings of the Waldenses : — " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...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 thy sheep, and in...

...inno* It is 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...

...Petrarch, or of 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,...

...Avenge O Lord thy slaughter' d Saints, whose bones Lie scatter' d on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our Fathers worship' t Stocks and Stones, Forget not: in thy look record their groanes Who were Ay Sheep and in...

...Fiction (1961) his early enthusiasm for Milton's prose and doctrines. "I had known the sonnet beginning 'Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold'. But I had not known until I read his prose works that in his capacity of Foreign Secretary he sent...

...glorious themes Before the Judge; who thenceforth bid thee rest, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont m Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy t nit h so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book...

...Avenge O Lord thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scattcr'd on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worship't stocks and stones. Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in...

...words that came to her again and again were those of John Milton in "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont": Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshiped stock and stones. . . . Perhaps in the interest of fairness, also, the basis of comparison...

...Night durst ride. You're not going to catch him being grandly polemical either, the way Milton was: Avenge O Lord Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. . . . Nobody writes like that these days, and it's not hard to imagine why. Humankind has simply been...