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The New Colossus

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus . She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty . In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.


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