HALF close your eyelids, loosen your hair, <br />And dream about the great and their pride; <br />They have spoken against you everywhere, <br />But weigh this song with the great and their pride; <br />I made it out of a mouthful of air, <br />Their children's children shall say they have lied.<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-thinks-of-those-who-have-spoken-evil-of-his-b/