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.

De Responsibilities (1914), a partir de la transcripción de Wikisource en inglés.

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