The poem that Partridge reads in the church is He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats, published in the collection The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). 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.