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The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus



Note: This poem was carved on the base of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in NY Harbor in 1903



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....

“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 lift my lamp beside the golden door.


Source: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," (1883).

Emma Lazarus’s poem was most likely carved onto the base of New York’s Harbor’s Statue of Liberty because

a
The U.S. wanted all to know that the U.S. is unwilling to accept immigrants and refugees in its national border.
b
The U.S. wanted to send a message of welcome to migrants fleeing poverty, war and oppression.
c
The New York Harbor needed a lighthouse to protect its shoreline from intruders.
d
Every American citizen supported open immigration policies to the United States.