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Emma Lazarus, born in New York City on July 22nd, 1849, and died on November 19th, 1887, wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, portraying not a brazen giant of Greek fame but a mighty woman with a torch at the nation’s sea-washed, sunset gates, named Mother of Exiles, whose beacon offers world-wide welcome and calls for the tired, poor, huddled masses, homeless, and tempest-tost to come to her lamp beside the golden door.
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