Friday, June 24, 2022

The Same Sentiment

What beautiful symmetry. It’s the same sentiment. 

Prince: 

If I gave you diamonds and pearls 
Would you be a happy boy or a girl 
If I could I would give you the world 
But all I can do is just offer you my love.

W.B. Yeats: 

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.