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TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ... by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: YOU SAY, AS I HAVE OFTEN GIVEN TONGUE
Last Line: BUT WAS THERE EVER DOG THAT PRAISED HIS FLEAS?
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
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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