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.
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Frida Wannerberger is an illustrator and graphic designer based in London.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, writer and an influential figure of British literature. ‘The Coat’ was published in the May 1914 issue of Poetry Magazine.