![]() ![]() Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, Of crickets, and low lisp of rippling tideĪll these fair sounds and sights I made my own. Laughter of unseen children, cheerful chirp In the grave sky the sparkle far and wide The semi-circle of its dark, green grove. The quiet fishing-smacks, the Eastern cove, The shining waters with pale currents strewn, The swiftness of the tide, the light thereon.Ī far-off sail, white as a crescent moon. In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown Grim bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!" Of race or creed or rank devised, to rear There falls each ancient barrier that the art Then smiling, thou unveil'dst, O two-faced year,Ī virgin world where doors of sunset part, No anchorage the known world could afford,Ĭlose-locked was every port, barred every gate. The West refused them, and the East abhorred. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. ![]() The children of the prophets of the Lord, ![]() Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate,ĭidst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. Glows world-wide welcome her mild eyes command Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand With conquering limbs astride from land to land She translated several important Jewish works, and "The New Colossus" is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Raised in a wealthy Jewish family in New York, Emma Lazarus devoted herself to Zionist and Marxist causes after hearing about the pogroms in Russia in the 1880s. Symphonic Studies (After Robert Schumann) ( Prelude, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and Epilogue). ![]()
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