William Butler Yeats A Coat I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked. William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, The Macmillan Company, 1956. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
A Coat
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, The Macmillan Company, 1956.