FOR MERIT.

To Parmentier Parisians raise

A statue fine and large:

He cooked potatoes fifty ways,

Nor ever led a charge.

"Palmam qui meruit"—the rest

You knew as well as I;

And best of all to him that best

Of sayings will apply.

Let meaner men the poet's bays

Or warrior's medal wear;

Who cooks potatoes fifty ways

Shall bear the palm—de terre.

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