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W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

45. To a Poet

who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine

YOU say, as I have often given tongue

In praise of what another’s said or sung,

’Twere politic to do the like by these;

But have you known a dog to praise his fleas?


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