Table-Talk by William Hazlitt

Author:William Hazlitt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: English essays
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2017-03-08T16:51:02+00:00

The most spir­ited and im­pas­sioned of them all, and the most in­spired with a sort of proph­etic fury, is the one en­titled, “On the late Mas­sacre in Pied­mont.”

“Avenge, 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 wor­shipp’d stocks and stones,

For­got 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 Heav’n. 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 hun­dred fold, who hav­ing learn’d thy way

Early may fly the Baby­lo­nian woe.”

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