LOL. Indeed! Classic cheese poetry will do that to you.
The cheese James McIntyre (1827-1906) is referring to in the poem weighed over 7,000 pounds. McIntyre wrote his poem after being impressed with the cheese when appeared at The Great World Show in Toronto in 1884.
Incidentally, it was that same show for which the Effel Tower was erected when it went later to Paris in 1889.
Holy moly — 7000 pounds? That. is a big cheese. It’s no wonder he was moved to write something so reverential and poignant.