The Levy Family and Monticello, 1834-1923: Saving Thomas Jefferson's House.
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Monticello in shambles
Monticello in shambles
Proud flower gardens, now strewn with weeds
Ingenious vegetable plots gone to seed
Hand-laid parquet, grown dull and scratched
Walls once bright yellow as sunshine, dimmed with years
Jefferson’s grave defaced by looters
Ingenious vegetable plots gone to seed
Hand-laid parquet, grown dull and scratched
Walls once bright yellow as sunshine, dimmed with years
Jefferson’s grave defaced by looters
You purchased the plantation for a pittance
To save it from oblivion
With love for the great man who lost it
You brought back his pawned furnishings
Intricate carved chess set from France,
Austere portraits and marble busts,
Leather bound library and quills,
Breathing life into a once gracious estate
As they tried to wrest it from
Your Jewish hands
To save it from oblivion
With love for the great man who lost it
You brought back his pawned furnishings
Intricate carved chess set from France,
Austere portraits and marble busts,
Leather bound library and quills,
Breathing life into a once gracious estate
As they tried to wrest it from
Your Jewish hands
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