greykit.poetry — Emma Lazarus

• 1883 [emma-lazarus] The New Colossus
  The New Colossus

  Not the brazen giant of Greek fame but a Mother of Exiles with a torch, whose silent lips ask for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free — the lines later cast on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.

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