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2 unusual facts about Emma Lazarus


Constance Cary Harrison

Among her other contributions to American Literature, Constance Cary Harrison persuaded her friend Emma Lazarus to donate a poem to the fundraising effort to pay for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.

Miss Liberty

The score includes the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor," a musical setting of the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus that is on the base of the monument.



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