“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”

—  W.B. Yeats , book The Tower

II, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/

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