Even 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 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