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Quotes from Poems and Translations — Emma Lazarus

1849–1887 United States

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Thou art a giant altar, where the Earth
Must needs send up her thanks to Him above
Who did create her.

Poems and Translations (1866)

The burning noon sends floods of molten gold,
The calm night crowns thee with its host of stars,
The moon enfolds thee with her silver veil,
And o'er thee e'er is arched the rainbow's span, —
The gorgeous marriage-ring of Earth and Heaven.
While ever from the holy altar grand
Ascends the incense of the mist and spray,
That mounts to God with thy wild roar of praise.

Poems and Translations (1866)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Lazarus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.