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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

31. A Coat

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 world’s eyes

As though they’d wrought it.

Song, let them take it

For there’s more enterprise

In walking naked.