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- From: matt@smoke.brl.mil (Matthew Rosenblatt)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Know the source of Liberty's quote, "tired,huddled masses"?
- Summary: Not like the Colossus of Rhodes . . .
- Keywords: Palestine, Texas (about 40 miles SSW of Tyler)
- Message-ID: <19510@smoke.brl.mil>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:47:30 GMT
- References: <7kRLwB5w165w@netlink.cts.com> <1992Dec30.190453.16688@linus.mitre.org> <1992Dec31.004219.17196@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.004219.17196@cbnews.cb.att.com> ask@cbnews.cb.att.com
- (Arthur S. Kamlet) writes:
-
- >The poem celebrates the Statue of Liberty. First was the statue,
- >later the poem.
- >
- > Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
- > With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
- > Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
- > A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
- > Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
- > Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
- > Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
- > The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
- > "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
- > With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
- > Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
- > The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
- > Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me,
- > I life my lamp beside the golden door!"
- >Emma Lazarus
- >The New Colossus
-
- >[ The "ancient lands" cite in the poem is a reference to Shelley's
- > Ozymandias - a different "colossus" statue fallen with old age
- > and disuse: ] [Art Kamlet]
-
- Izzat what it is? And here all along I've thought that "the brazen
- giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land"
- was none other than the Colossus of Rhodes -- one of the Seven Wonders
- of the Ancient World, no less.
-
- > The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
-
- I notice that most of the responses to the original poster's
- misc.legal question kind of left out this line. Maybe it makes
- some people today uncomfortable. But "refuse" means that which
- is "not wanted," and that sure fits my grandparents, the inhabitants
- of whose native lands made it abundantly clear to them that they were
- not wanted there.
-
- There's a "mass" of about 400 members of Hamas presently "huddled" in
- the snow and cold of a no-man's-land in the Lebanon. Would it not be
- in the spirit of Emma Lazarus's fine poem for the United States to
- welcome them through its "golden door" and provide each of these
- "homeless, tempest-tossed" men, along with his family, forty acres
- of land near Palestine?
-
- -- Matt Rosenblatt
- (matt@amsaa.brl.mil)
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