To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine

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William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

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 was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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