The Green Helmet and Other Poems/To a Poet, who would have me Praise

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On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians against Immoral Literature

The Green Helmet and Other Poems
by William Butler Yeats

To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain bad Poets, Imitators of his and mine

The Attack on the "Play Boy"

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3327176The Green Helmet and Other Poems — To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain bad Poets, Imitators of his and mineWilliam Butler Yeats

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,
'T were politic to do the like by these;
But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?