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To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine (Author: William Butler Yeats)

p.104

1. 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?