9i SOIIE OLD flISTOBIC LANDHABKS

Surely this place of sepulttire, presenting in its loneliness and neglect scr »addeninga
contrast to the kindly, reverential care which has been bestowed by a grateful people
upon the home and last resting place of his neighbor and early companion, George
Washineton, deserves a fitting enclosure, and should receive at the hands of friends and
descendants that care and loving aiteniiou which the eminent worth and characters of '
the sleepers there entombed so well deserve. Who then of all Virginians who fondly
cherish the memories of the ante-revolutionary days and revere the men who were in-
strumental in evolving their state and national governments from colonial chaos will
now come forward and initiate a movement for the accomplishment of this object. Not
only should an inctosure he provided, but a monument to their memory as well.
GRAVES OF WILLIAM AND DEBOKAH FAIRFAX.
"Where shall once ihe wanrterir weary Or upon some lonely seashore

Meet his resling-place and shrine : Rest al la-l b^neaih the sandi ?

Under palm trees by the i ianges. 'Tb no malter'l God's wide heaven

Under lindens of ihe khine ? Mnat surround me Ihere us here :

Shall I somwhcre in the desert And as death lamps o'er me swinpfinj!

Owe my grave lo stranger hands? Night by night ibe stars burn clear."

The old wood rtmning down from the mansion to the river's edge over which Wash-
ington so frequently passed in his visits by water to his friends the Fairfaxes with wh» ""*
he was on the most intimate and cordial relations, m*y still be traced through a gro'^"''
of pines, oaks and cedars.
