"...This included his masterpiece and possibly best-known poem, 'Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds,' written about an actual cheese produced in Ingersoll in 1866 and sent to exhibitions in Toronto, New York, and Britain:
We have seen thee, Queen of Cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease,
Gently fanned by evening breeze;
Thy fair form no flies dare seize. "
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