Saturday, July 20, 2013

WB Yeats

I first read this when I was ten or eleven.  I can't remember exactly when it was, but I can remember reading it in my pink bedroom in the Matopos!

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
by William Butler Yeats

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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