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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of Snobs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Leonardo was a lad there was a certain set<br>Who snubbed him most outrageously - in fact, they snub him yet<br> He wasn't in the fashion, so he wasn't in the fold;<br> Before his death he was too new, and now he grows too old.<br>Because his art was new to them the snobs of Florence laughed;<br>And now, because he isn't new, the moderns scorn his craft.<br>'Da Vinci? Don't be crude, my dear! Call him an artist? Pshaw!<br>Why that old anachronism, so they say, knew how to draw!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have wandered thro' the ages, mouthing cliches as they go.<br>At first nights, and private views, 'mid the people 'one should know.'<br> But the artist goes on laughing as thro' every age he's laughed<br> At snobs who patronise the 'Arts,' but boggle at the craft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Shakespeare sought draw the crowds and please the taste of town<br>And watched box office takings with a worn and worried frown,<br> Kit Marlowe knew, Ben Jonson knew what stuff was in the lad;<br> But the dilettanti voted him quite definitely bad.<br>The fellow simply stole his plots, they said with lofty sneers,<br>And served them up most vulgarly to tickle groundling's ears.<br> 'Will Shakespeare? That cheap showman!<br> Why the man's quite gauche, my dear!<br>I prefer them cultivated like dear Bacon and de Vere. '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So reputations surge and sink as lifts and ebbs the tide,<br>Now wallowing within the trough, now on the crest they ride.<br> But the snobs are ever with us, snobs of art, of place, of pelf.<br> And reading this, I rather think I might be one myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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 Before his death he was too new, and now he grows too old.
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