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A Coat

Author William Butler Yeats
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 worldΒ’s eyes
As though theyΒ’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For thereΒ’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

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