“No signs of life are here: the very prayers
Inscribed around are in a language dead.”

— Emma Lazarus

In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-jewish-synagogue-at-newport/

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American poet 1849–1887

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