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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

On the Late Massacher in Piemont

John Milton (1608–1674)

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 book record their groanes

Who were thy Sheep and in their antient Fold

Slayn by the bloody Piemontese that roll’d

Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans

The Vales redoubl’d to the Hills, and they

To Heav’n. Their martyr’d blood and ashes sow

O’re all th’ Italian fields where still doth sway

The triple Tyrant: that from these may grow

A hunder’d-fold, who having learnt thy way

Early may fly the Babylonian wo.