WALDENSES

Those had givenearliest notice, as the lark

Springs from the ground the morn to gratulate;

Orrather rose the day to antedate,

By striking out a solitary spark,

When all the world with midnight gloom was dark.—

Then followed the Waldensian bands, whom Hate

In vain endeavoursto exterminate,

WhomObloquy pursues with hideous bark:

But they desist not;— and the sacred fire,

Rekindled thus, from dens and savage woods

Moves, handed on with never-ceasing care,

Through courts, through camps, o'er limitary floods;

Nor lacks this sea-girt Isle a timely share

Of the new Flame, not suffered to expire.