Tolkien is Not Yeats

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Re: Tolkien is Not Yeats

Feste's song from &quot;Twelfth Night&quot;:

&quot;When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, &amp; c.
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
For the rain, &amp; c.
But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho, &amp; c.
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain, &amp; c.
But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, &amp; c.
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain, &amp; c.
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, &amp; c.
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.&quot;

Boy Shakespeare is bad poet isn't he?

<font size = "-2"> [i] Listen! the mighty Being is awake / And doth with his eternal motion make / A sound like thunder--everlastingly.</p>