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J.B. (JUNE 7, 1880) by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE ACTOR'S DEAD, AND THE MEMORY ALONE
Last Line: AND THAT IS FAME!
Subject(s): ACTORS & ACTRESSES; ACTRESSES;
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!



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