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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

by W. B. Yeats·1899·The Wind Among the Reeds
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First published in The Wind Among the Reeds (London: Elkin Mathews, 1899), where it is titled “Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”.

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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