 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...Alpine mountains cold; Ev'u them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record...sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese, that roll'd Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubl'd to the hills,... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...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... | |
 | Baptism - 1838 - 228 pages
...this first verse is a specimen ; " Arenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered sainls, whose bone?, Lie scanered on the Alpine mountains cold : Even them who kept...When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones." That Cromwell and Milton favored the Waldenses, or Baptists, in sentiment. is equally evident from... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - History - 1990 - 308 pages
..."antient Fold" more acutely because they had demonstrated their constancy over many centuries ("Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old / When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones"). For Milton and European Protestants the "Piemontese Easter" presented... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...bid thee rest, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont m Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on 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... | |
 | Derek Attridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 300 pages
...fall in the expected places, the emphasis is weakened and the lines lose some of their power: (9a) Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold Were slain by bloody Piedmontese that rolled The mother with the infant down the rocks. Not every departure... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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... | |
 | Roger D. Launius, John E. Hallwas - Religion - 1996 - 300 pages
...John Milton in "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont": Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them...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... | |
 | Ronald Charles Thompson - Religion - 1996 - 180 pages
...Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered 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 & stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groanes Who were thy Sheep, and in... | |
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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... 
