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He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Scoring: SSAATTBB (a cappella)
Written: Los Angeles, USA - April 2012
Duration: 2'10
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: £1.95

For their wedding ceremony, Jim's wife requested that he set this beautiful text by W.B. Yeats, to be performed by a choir of their friends.

He wishes for the cloths of heaven - W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)

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.
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