Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Piedmont | | On the Late Massacre in Piedmont | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | | 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 not: in thy book record their groans | 5 |
| Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold | |
| Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled | |
| Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans | |
| The vales redoubled to the hills, and they | |
| To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow | 10 |
| O’er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway | |
| The triple tyrant; that from these may grow | |
| A hundred-fold, who, having learned thy way, | |
| Early may fly the Babylonian woe. | | | | |
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