45. To a Poet. Yeats, W. B. 1916. Responsibilities and Other Poems

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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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