The choice of this place rests on the interest which Emma Lazarus took in the Liberty Statue as a symbol for a land where the downtrodden and despised have found a chance to develop their own careers, and interest which found one expression in her verses on The New Colossus. Yesterday, a memorial bronze tablet was unveiled on Bedloe’s, or Liberty Island, as it is now called, just inside the entrance to the pedestal of Bartholdi’s gigantic statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. The memory of Emma Lazarus, a writer of note in her day, has been revived by her friend, Miss Georgina Schuyler, by a graceful act. Tablet on Liberty island to the poetess who sang of the new Colossus But all who catch the spirit of Emma Lazarus will unite in putting that day off as far as possible in the future, and in keeping the torch of Liberty Enlightening the World burning as long as there is room for more.
There may come a day when the welcome to the oppressed of all lands will have to be by card. But it may not be passing it may be followed by others that will eventually put out “the lamp beside the golden door.”Īnd yet the great field of opportunity is not occupied, the demand today is for labor everywhere, and the “homeless and tempest tossed” are sinking in to the mass of a contented, thrifty and ambitious citizenship absolutely unnoticed. Just at present, there is a wave of protest against welcoming the horde of the “homeless and tempest-tossed” that is pouring in at Ellis Island. And reading it, it is worthwhile to ask, will it voice the Americanism of the century that is to come? This is not only a beautiful sentiment adequately expressed, but it voices the Americanism of a century that has passed. 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 It is as follows: The New Colossus, by Emma Lazarus It is entitled “The New Colossus,” and although many of our best-known poets have written for it, this now becomes its dedication, the noblest poem, the Springfield Republican declares, of them all. On the inside of the pedestal of the statue of ‘ Liberty Enlightening the World‘ on Bedloe’s Island has been placed a bronze memorial tablet bearing her name and the sonnet she wrote twenty years ago, dedicated to the statue. Liberty Enlightening the World: The Statue of Liberty poem (story from 1903)Įmma Lazarus, the Jewish poet, has been accorded an exceptional honor.
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