| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1228. J. B. |
| | | June 7, 1880 |
| | | By Henry Cuyler Bunner |
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| THE ACTOR’S dead, and memory alone | |
| Recalls the genial magic of his tone; | |
| Marble nor canvas nor the printed page | |
| Shall tell his genius to another age: | |
| A memory, doomed to dwindle less and less, | 5 |
| His world-wide fame shrinks to this littleness. | |
| Yet if, a half a century from to-day, | |
| A tender smile about our old lips play, | |
| And if our grandchild query whence it came, | |
| We ’ll say: “A thought of Brougham.”— | 10 |
| And that is Fame! | |
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