My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, <br />For this modest boulder, <br />And its little tablet of bronze. <br />Twice I tried to join your honored body, <br />And was rejected, <br />And when my little brochure <br />On the intelligence of plants <br />Began to attract attention <br />You almost voted me in. <br />After that I grew beyond the need of you <br />And your recognition. <br />Yet I do not reject your memorial stone, <br />Seeing that I should, in so doing, <br />Deprive you of honor to yourselves.<br /><br />Edgar Lee Masters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/perry-zoll/
