Perry ZollMy thanks, friends of theCounty Scientific Association,For this modest boulder,And its little tablet of bronze.Twice I tried to join your honored body,And was rejectedAnd when my little brochureOn the intelligence of plantsBegan to attract attentionYou almost voted me in.After that I grew beyond the need of youAnd your recognition.Yet I do not reject your memorial stoneSeeing that I should, in so doing,Deprive you of honor to yourselves.
My thanks, friends of theCounty Scientific Association,For this modest boulder,And its little tablet of bronze.Twice I tried to join your honored body,And was rejectedAnd when my little brochureOn the intelligence of plantsBegan to attract attentionYou almost voted me in.After that I grew beyond the need of youAnd your recognition.Yet I do not reject your memorial stoneSeeing that I should, in so doing,Deprive you of honor to yourselves.