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A poem for today

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In honor of his birthday this past Saturday, here is one of my favorite poems from one of my favorite poets.

He 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.

William Butler Yeats

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Written by Blake Huggins

June 15th, 2009 at 7:30 am