Poem by William Butler Yeats

Oil and Blood

IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet. 

1. Tom at Cruachan
2. Parting
3. Under Ben Bulben
4. The Fairy Pendant
5. Under Saturn

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