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A Coat

 I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But he 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.

Poem by William Butler Yeats
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