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Thread #105603   Message #2175164
Posted By: Emma B
20-Oct-07 - 05:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Poems that speak to you.
Subject: RE: BS: Poems that speak to you.
Another favourite of mine from Yeats.....

He 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.

        -- William Butler Yeats