X + 

A Trencher-Knight + 

Stranger, uncover; here you have in view + 

The monument of Chauncey M. Depew, + 

Eater and orator, the whole world round + 

For feats of tongue and tooth alike renowned. + 

Dining his way to eminence, he rowed + 

With knife and fork up water-ways that flowed + 

From lakes of favor⁠—pulled with all his force + 

And found each river sweeter than the source. + 

Like rats, obscure beneath a kitchen floor, + 

Gnawing and rising till obscure no more, + 

He ate his way to eminence, and Fame + 

Inscribes in gravy his immortal name. + 

A trencher-knight, he, mounted on his belly, + 

So spurred his charger that its sides were jelly. + 

Grown desperate at last, it reared and threw him, + 

And Indigestion, overtaking, slew him. + 