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Hrishikesh Hirway reads "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats.
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Hi, I'm Hrishikesh Hirway and I'm reading "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats. Yeats is my favorite poet and I've had a portrait of him by John Singer Sargent hanging over my desk for almost 20 years, and this poem in particular is one of my favorites. I actually included it on the back of my wedding program.
"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.
"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.