A Coat BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"A Coat" on a wall in Leiden

A Coat

BY 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 eyes 

As though they’d wrought it. 

Song, let them take it

For there’s more enterprise 

In walking naked.