He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

W. B. Yeats(1865–1939)

The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf 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.

From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), where it appeared as "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", via the English Wikisource transcription.

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