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mme_n_bHAD 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.
I had known this poem for most of my life, and had no idea that the hero of it was Aedh. He's a god of death. Both of these facts make a difference to my understanding of the poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aed_(god)
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.
I had known this poem for most of my life, and had no idea that the hero of it was Aedh. He's a god of death. Both of these facts make a difference to my understanding of the poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aed_(god)
