Excerpt from Statue of Liberty National Monument, Liberty Island, New York To the poet Emma Lazarus, who saw refugees from persecution arriv ing on a tramp Steamer, following incredible sufferings, the statue was The New Colossus or the Mother of Exiles. She wrote of it in 1883. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.