Wallace Bruce

Wallace Bruce (1844–1914) was an American lecturer and poet, born in Hillsdale, New York, and educated at Yale. He was United States consul at Edinburgh from 1889 to 1893 and published Old Homestead Poems (1887) and Wayside Poems (1895).

The poem printed here is taken from An American Anthology, 1787–1900, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900).