Francesco Hayez, Italian
The Actual Erin in “Erin Go Bragh-less,” 1850
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #797 (3/17/12)
Artist info at a later blog entry.
/// Holy Bible and cross are her way
to keep blood-sucking vampires away.
But dead pagan Druids
(who sucked other fluids)
were attracted to what’s on display.
/// She’s ashamed, (she claimed), for her submission
to that ghostly obscene apparition.
Said she blushed with disgrace
that it reached second base,
yet her breast is still on exhibition.
/// “Proper” exorcists hadn’t sufficed.
To depart, demons must be enticed.
She approached the possessed.
Calmly showed him her breast
He was saved; he exclaimed, “Jesus Christ!”