The marvel,—he 's a neighbor: that 's his park

Before you, tree-topped wall we walk toward.

His shop it was turned out the masterpiece,

Probably at his own expenditure;

Anyhow, his was the munificence

Contributed the central and supreme

Splendor that crowns the crown itself, The Stone.

Not even Paris, ransacked, could supply

That gem: he had to forage in New York,

This jeweller, and country-gentleman,