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- From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
- Subject: Re: Know the source of Liberty's quote, "tired,huddled masses"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.190453.16688@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Dec30.063443.8603@netcom.com> <7kRLwB5w165w@netlink.cts.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:04:53 GMT
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- In article <7kRLwB5w165w@netlink.cts.com> gregb@netlink.cts.com (Greg Beron) writes:
- >lion@netcom.com (carl loeber) writes:
- >
- >> i
- >>
- >> Anyone know where that phrase derived on the Statue of Liberty?
- >>
- >
- >It's part of a poem by Emma (?) Lazarus.
-
- The quote is from "The New Colossus", a poem by Emma Lazarus,
- which is an ode to the Statue of Liberty. It closes:
-
- Give me your poor, your tired,
- Your huddled masses yearning to breath free.
- Send these, the tempest-tossed, to me:
- I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door!
-
- Liberty stands on a small island in New York Harbour. Nearby is
- the larger Ellis Island, for many years the main immigrant processing
- station for the United States. Millions of immigrants (including my
- grandfather) spent their first day on US soil in the Liberty's shadow.
-
- > The full text of the poem is on the tablet Lady Liberty is holding in
- > her left hand.
-
- >-Greg
-
- Nope. The statue is a gift from France. The poem was written
- years later (I doubt that Bartholdi had every heard of Emma Lazarus).
- The tablet bears a date: IV JULY MDCCLXXVI.
-
- The poem's text is on a brass plate attached to the pedestal of
- the statue. If you visit the museum of immigration which wraps around
- the base you can see it.
-
- Peter Trei
- ptrei@mitre.org
-