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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

A Coat

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 world’s eye

As though they’d wrought it.

Song, let them take it

For there’s more enterprise

In walking naked.