Montague Leverson + 

As some enormous violet that towers + 

Colossal o’er the heads of lowlier flowers⁠— + 

Its giant petals royally displayed, + 

And casting half the landscape into shade; + 

Delivering its odors, like the blows + 

Of some strong slugger, at the public nose; + 

Pride of two Nations⁠—for a single State + 

Would scarce suffice to sprout a plant so great; + 

So Leverson’s humility, outgrown + 

The meaner virtues that he deigns to own, + 

To the high skies its great corolla rears, + 

In the benign sufflation of his cheers. + 