On the Late Massacre in Piemont
分类: 英语诗歌
VENGE O Lord! Thy slaughter'd saints whose bones
Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold;
Even them who kept Thy truth so pure of old
When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones
Forget not: in Thy book record their groans
Who were Thy sheep and in their ancient fold
Slain by the bloody Piemontese that roll'd
Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans
The vales redoubled to the hills and they
To Heaven. Their martyr'd blood and ashes sow
O'er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple Tyrant: that from these may grow
A hundredfold who having learnt Thy way
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.