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That father perished at the stake

For tenets he would not forsake;

And for the same his lineal race

In darkness found a dwelling place;

We were seven—who now are one,[5]

Six in youth, and one in age,

Finished as they had begun,

Proud of Persecution's rage;[c]20

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One in fire, and two in field,

Their belief with blood have sealed,

Dying as their father died,

For the God their foes denied;—

Three were in a dungeon cast,

Of whom this wreck is left the last.

II.

There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,[6]

In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,

There are seven columns, massy and grey,

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