For Merit

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Title:     For Merit
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

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.

[The end]
Ambrose Bierce's poem: For Merit

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