“A Coat” by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):
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.
(Photo: William Butler Yeats in 1933, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Dish 
