Waldenses

  THOSE had given earliest notice, as the lark
  Springs from the ground the morn to gratulate;
  Or rather 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 endeavours to exterminate,
  Whom Obloquy 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.