"Purpureal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... held the aeries of that eagle race More late in Alba throned, "Lords of the Isles" - High chiefs whose bards, in strong transmitted line, Filled with the name of Fionn, and thine, Oiseen, The blue glens of that never-vanquished land - From those purpureal mountains that o'ergaze Rock-bowered Loch Lene broidered with sanguine bead, They came, and many a ridge o'er sea-lake stretched That, autumn-robed in purple and in gold, Pontific vestment, guard the memories ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere |
