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Thread #156027   Message #3676053
Posted By: MGM·Lion
09-Nov-14 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: W.B, Yeats - how can I get to know him
Subject: RE: BS: W.B, Yeats - how can I get to know him
Exquisite. My own favourites are Sailing To Byzantium, of which I quoted part of a stanza a few posts back [and used a couple of years ago on a thread when I turned 80], and Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

Had I the heaven's 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.