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

by William Butler Yeats

 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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