| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | June 7 | | J. B. | | By Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) |
| | | | John Brougham, who died on June 7th, 1880, was an American actor of Irish extraction. |
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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 today, | |
| 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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