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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-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), U.S. poet. The New Colossus (l. 10–14). . .

America in Poetry. Charles Sullivan, ed. (1988) Harry N. Abrams.

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