...dark ages they were the persecuted Albigenses and Waldenses, of whom the poet has sung, "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;" the Lollards, in our own country,, the martyrs and reformers of our church, and all who in their spirit...

...lines of our own Milton, whose muse was inspired by the distant report of their sufferings: " 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, Forget...

...with him, and sing in endless morn of light ! Milton. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.' 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,4 When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,...

...have been faithful unto the death ; — of whom our great poet so sublimely writes, — " Avenge, О 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 lathers worshipped stocks and stones."...

...sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow-men ! — " Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold !" was the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred...

...brethren!!" Well might our immortal bard Milton, in contemplation of such a scene, exclaim: 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, Forget...

...inimitable sonnet, so well known, and so universally admired: — 1 Dr. Henderson's Vmulois, pp. 21, 22. ' Avenge, 0 .Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones.....^ . Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them, who kept thy Truth so pure ot old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget...

...surveying the butchery of the saints of the Most High, by Papal emissaries, exclaim, — Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; liv'u they who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,...

...On the late Massacre in Piedmont. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter^ saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all onr fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy...

...necessary to explain, that the word " slain"1 is not used in the sense of slaughtered, as in Milton's sonnet — " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints,...whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ;" but it is used rather in the sense of the Irish word " kilt." Even in their slain state, they can...