Equilibrium, Yeates

Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeates ------------------------------------------------ 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. “Aedh was a Celtic God of Death, one of the children of Lir.
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