With silent lips. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
ATTRIBUTION:
Emma Lazarus (18491887), U.S. poet. The New Colossus (l. 1014). . .
America in Poetry. Charles Sullivan, ed. (1988) Harry N. Abrams.