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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575322" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad[e] Of Imitation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they hint, O Musician, the piece that you played<br>Is nought but a copy of Chopin or Spohr; <br>That the ballad you sing is but merely 'conveyed'<br>From the stock of the Arnes and the Purcells of yore; <br>That there's nothing, in short, in the words or the score <br>That is not as out-worn as the 'Wandering Jew,'<br>Make answer-Beethoven could scarcely do more- <br>That the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they tell you, Sir Artist, your light and your shade<br>Are simply 'adapted' from other men's lore; <br>That-plainly to speak of a 'spade' as a 'spade'-<br>You've 'stolen' your grouping from three or from four; <br>That (however the writer the truth may deplore), <br>'Twas Gainsborough painted your 'Little Boy Blue';<br>Smile only serenely-though cut to the core- <br>For the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you too, my Poet, be never dismayed<br>If they whisper your Epic-'Sir Eperon d'Or'- <br>Is nothing but Tennyson thinly arrayed<br>In a tissue that's taken from Morris's store; <br>That no one, in fact, but a child could ignore <br>That you 'lift' or 'accommodate' all that you do;<br>Take heart-though your Pegasus' withers be sore- <br>For the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">POSTSCRIPTUM-And you, whom we all so adore,<br>Dear Critics, whose verdicts are always so new!- <br>One word in your ear. There were Critics before . . .<br>And the man who plants cabbages imitates, too!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Austin+Dobson">Henry Austin Dobson</a><div class=q>
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Is nought but a copy of Chopin or Spohr; 
That the ballad you sing is but merely 'conveyed'
From the stock of the Arnes and the Purcells of yore; 
That there's nothing, in short, in the words or ..."></div>
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