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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — W.B. Yeats

Poem

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats
1899
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Topic
GentlenessVulnerability
Medium
Poem
Time
1899
Person
W.B. Yeats
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Current citation
Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

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