He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
                                                     by William Butler Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

他希求天國的錦緞

假如我有天國的錦緞，

繡著金光銀光，

寶藍、灰暗和漆黑之綢，

以夜、光和微光織就，

我將把錦緞鋪在你腳下：

但我一無所有，唯存夢想；

我把我的夢鋪在你腳下；

腳步請放輕，

因為你踩著的是  我的夢。

～葉慈詩選