Library of Congress Presents 'Song of America' Tour

With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
Why rising by the roadside here, do you the colors greet?

Forth from thy hovel door thou Ethiopia com'st to me,
As under doughty Sherman I march toward the sea.)

and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride this day down into night,
to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand."

JAMES STEWART: "I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.  Somebody will listen to me ... "

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States.  He played an important part in the history of the Library of Congress.