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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.