Livor mortis or postmortem lividity, one of the signs of death, is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin. This discoloration doesn't occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, as the capillaries are compressed.
You drooped in that last storm's fury, too fragile its might
And then I left the home-nest when my last sweet dove had
And sought to forget, amid stranger scenes, the sorrows my
shore,
When I cry in my lonely anguish for the joys now mine no
I thrill with a passion'd yearning for the fuller life.html">life to be,
mystery!
"Oh, search with mother-love the gifts
Fair Erna's isles--Neagh's wooded slopes--
O'er broad Lutigh Neagh's breast,
Its glory over the West.
That smile round Neagh's smiling flood,
For Poet's song or artist's dream.
Round the horizon, sternly frowning,
The purple range, Slieve Gallion crowning,
Northward Losgh Beg's bright waters play
The ruined pile with ivied walls
Where calmly rest the sleeping dead--
In other life, whetted they have fled.
One soul might earthward take its flight,
"Prepare for death.html">death, oh child of clay!"
Oh, time-worn walls! full many a word
Love, warning, blessing, oft ye heard,
And funeral.html">funeral dirge, as wild and high'
Borne far and wide, o'er fern and brake,
Tell that if, when a funeral train
And howled the wind and sobbed the rain,
And told the spirit's happy rest.
Sad rose their wailing, weird and dread!
And that before a chieftain's death,
How oft they saw the water-wraith,
How many a barque, at midnight toss'd
In the gray dawn-light seemed to glide
Is fading from our hearts.html">hearts away,
Are all forgotten in to day!
These cherished legends can be told;
Its mystic notes no heart can thrill!
Once minstrel hearts awoke its strain,
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