Wednesday 29 October 2014

Blog name

Is the blog title and domain any good?

"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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