 | The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.
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When the Protestant Church at Montpelier was demolished
by the French King's Order, the Protestants laid the Stones up in their Burying-place, wherein a
Jesuit made a Latin Epigram.
Englished thus:
A hug'not church, once at Montpelier built,
Stood and proclaim'd their madness and their guilt;
Too long it stood beneath heav'n's angry frown,
Worthy when rising to be thunder'd down.
Lewis, at last, th'avenger of the skies,
Commands, and level with the ground it lies:
The stones dispers'd, their wretched offspring come,
Gather, and heap them on their father's tomb.
Thus the curs'd house falls on the builder's head:
And tho' beneath the ground their bones are laid,
Yet the just vengeance still pursues the guilty dead.
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