"Staining or covering with blood" - that's the definition, but not why I chose it.
It's taken from A. E. Housman's More Poems, XVI
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day.
Source: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/complete_housman.html#MPxvi
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