Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Henry CuylerBunner

1228 J. B.

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,

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.”—

And that is Fame!