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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 11:10:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 11:10:00 1985
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	The Yeats poem in question was collected under more than one
    title; one of the ones I remember offhand is "He wishes for the
    cloths of heaven". The fail-safe way to find it is go to a library,
    and get a complete set of his poems with an index of first lines. 
    The first line, and the rest of it that I remember, is:

	Had I the heavens' immortal cloths
	Of the gold and the silver light
	The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
	Of the night and the light and the half-light

	I would lay them at your feet
	But I, being poor, have only my dreams
	I have lain them at your feet
	Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

	-- W.B. Yeats

    John Sebes ( ...{ima, decvax!harpo}!inmet!sebes )