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by Unknown

SARGENT’S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT “THE PLAYERS.”

By Permission of the Author.

HAT face which no man ever saw

And from his memory banished quite,

With eyes in which are Hamlet’s awe

And Cardinal Richelieu’s subtle light

Looks from this frame. A master’s hand

Has set the master-player here,

In the fair temple[¹] that he planned