Front:
On the proposition to pull down the John Marshall
House for the School there.
To the People of Richmond
Why pull it down?-John Marshall's home!
It adds a lustre to the town;
And 't would be so, if this were Rome,
With all her great renown.
By Vandals Cato's home was spared,
To shew to all who pass that way,
How Virtue and Contentment shared
With Glory Life's best day.
Yon noble school has ample room
For youth to learn or have its play:
Then save from its impending doom
John Marshall's home, we pray!
It teaches lessons hard to learn,
Of virtue, love and high emprise,
Of honest living; how to earn
What's best beneath the skies.
Repair it, if it needs repair-
For what is money in the scale,
Compared with all the treasure there
Within its sacred pale!
"Mount Vernon," "Stratford," types of Rome-
Still tell of patriots' high renown-
In God's Name, Spare the Marshall home-
It adds a lustre to the town!
Rossuvelle Page
January 12, 1910.
Back:
The Home of Chief-Justice Marshall, built about
1789, was happily spared when its demolition was
proposed some years ago, and is now restored and
maintained by the Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities.
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