A Coat

W. B. Yeats(1865–1939)

Responsibilities, 1914

I made my song a coatCovered with embroideriesOut of old mythologiesFrom heel to throat;But the fools caught it,Wore it in the world's eyeAs though they'd wrought it.Song, let them take itFor there's more enterpriseIn walking naked.

From Responsibilities (1914), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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