Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
The Old Beau
By Edgar Fawcett (1847–1904)H
How dulled his eye, once flashing warm!
But still a courtly pathos clings
About his bent and withered form.
His wrinkled cheek, his locks of snow
Gleam near the grandsons of the belles
He smiled on forty years ago!
Our gaze may witness, while he prates,
Death, like a footman, touch his sleeve
And tell him that the carriage waits.