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

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(thing) by beak (1.6 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Mon Mar 19 2001 at 13:31:56

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?

- William Butler Yeats

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