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The Ass

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Here is a tale for artists and for writers:     There was an ass, in other words, a critic,     Who brayed and balked and kicked most analytic,     And waved long ears above his brother smiters.     He could not tell a rose-tree from a thistle,     But oft mistook the one thing for the other;     Then wagged his ears most wisely at some brother,     Sent him his he-haw for the Penny Whistle.     A poet sent his volume to him' kindly     Asking for criticism. You might know it:     He made one mouthful of it, weed and flower.     There rose a cry that he had done it blindly.     'Twas poetry! What! would he kill a poet!     Not he! The ass had brayed him into power.

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