W.B Yeats

 ‘Aedh  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



photo: SarahA O’Leary

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