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But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.

The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
O but we dreamed to mend
Whatever mischief seemed
To afflict mankind, but now
That winds of winter blow
Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

The Tower, 1928. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
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.
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