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What prayers were in this temple offered up,
Wrung from sad hearts that knew no joy on earth,
By these lone exiles of a thousand years,
From the fair sunrise land that gave them birth!

— Emma Lazarus Admetus and Other Poems (1871)

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To his sunny creed
A thousand gloomy, warring sects succeed.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Nathless the sacred shrine is holy yet,
With its lone floors where reverent feet once trod.
Take off your shoes as by the burning bush,
Before the mystery of death and God.

Admetus and Other Poems (1871)

Then Nature shaped a poet's heart — a lyre
From out whose chords the lightest breeze that blows
Drew trembling music.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

A lady 'twixt two knights' stone effigies,
And every day in dusky glory steeps
Their sculptured slumber of five centuries.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

Down the long hall she glistens like a star,
The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone,
Yet none the less immortal, breathing on.
Time's brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889)

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