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.

Readings

W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Gavin Drea
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Dominic West
Select reading
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Gavin Drea
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Bob Geldof
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Sinéad Cusack
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven' read by Dominic West
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