Robert Burns poem


There are many different poets mentioned in 'Sex, chips...' but there's one in particular that I'm trying to remember. I'm 99% sure it's a Robert Burns poem. Can anyone shed any light?

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The main poem referred to is by 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.

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Is it this one?

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.

if so, it's by...William Butler YEATS

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