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!
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From The New Colossus, a sonnet written by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887); its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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