The Exiles of Lucerna: Or the Sufferings of the Waldenses During the Persecution of 1686 (Classic Reprint)

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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 worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans, Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, 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 An hundred others, who having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe!

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