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- From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
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- Subject: Re: source "tired, huddled masses.."? ON Liberty.
- Message-ID: <j89awyp@Unify.Com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:47:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.063129.8338@netcom.com> <JMC.92Dec29231741@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Dec29231741@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.063129.8338@netcom.com> lion@netcom.com (carl loeber) writes:
- >
- >> Does anyone know offhand from whence comes the phrase
- >> on the statue of Liberty?
- >
- >from Britannica 14th edition
- >
- >LAZARUS, EMMA (1849-1887) U.S. poet, the author of "The New Colossus",
- >the sonnet engraved on a memorial tablet on the Statue of Liberty ...
- >
- >The article LIBERTY, STATUE OF tells us that the stature was dedicated
- >in 1886.
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- Give me your tired, your poor,
- Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
- The wretched refuse of your teaming shores.
- Send them, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me:
- I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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- IMO the wretched Haitians huddled in the Guantanamo Bay camp illuminate the
- tarnish on that golden door.
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- If it's a sonnet, there are 9 more lines. Can someone supply them?
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