...piled stones ? In contrast, his sonnet 'On the late Massacre in Piedmont' thunders an imperious anger: Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the alpine mountains cold. While Sonnet XX, on his own blindness ("When I consider how my light is spent..."), works through to...

...Waldensians in the 1650s inspired John Milton's poem, 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont', which begins 'Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints, whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold . . .'. '"' He belonged to the family Durfort, co-seigneurs of Saverdun. See Duvernoy, p. 49 n. 8,...

...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 worshipp 'd stocks and stones; Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in...

...rises above its topical subject to a vision of Truth Forget not: in thy book record their groans 5 Who were thy Sheep and in their ancient Fold Slain by the bloody Ptemontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks. Their moans The Vales redoubl'd to the Hills,...

...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...

...endured from their haughty enemies, we join our voices in the great martyr cry with the bard of Paradise: Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even those who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not:...

...persecution of the Waldenses led John Milton to write his famous sonnet, "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont." 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 worshiped stocks and stones. Forget...

...memorialized the victims in the opening lines of his sonnet "Of the Late Massacre in Piedmont," writing: Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, 1'Acn them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When our fathers worshipped stocks and stones. While...

...Avenge, 0 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 worshipp'd stocks and stones; Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in...

...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.19 The idyllic scene has suddenly been repudiated as if it...