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Emma Lazarus

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[[Image:L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[L'Absinthe]]'' ([[1876]]) - [[Edgar Degas]]
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"Give me your [[tired]], your [[poor]], <br/>
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, <br/>
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. <br/>
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, <br/>
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" --[[Emma Lazarus]], 1883
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'''Emma Lazarus''' (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in [[New York City]].

She is best known for "[[The New Colossus]]", a [[sonnet]] written in 1883; its lines appear on a [[bronze]] plaque in the pedestal of the [[Statue of Liberty]] placed in 1903.

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