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Currents. (Little Poems In Prose.)

By Emma Lazarus

Topics: classic

1. Vast oceanic movements, the flux and reflux of immeasurable tides, oversweep our continent.     2. From the far Caucasian steppes, from the squalid Ghettos of Europe,     3. From Odessa and Bucharest, from Kief, and Ekaterinoslav,     4. Hark to the cry of the exiles of Babylon, the voice of Rachel mourning for her children, of Israel lamenting for Zion.     5. And lo, like a turbid stream, the long-pent flood bursts the dykes of oppression and rushes hitherward.     6. Unto her ample breast, the generous mother of nations welcomes them.     7. The herdsman of Canaan and the seed of Jerusalem's royal shepherd renew their youth amid the pastoral plains of Texas and the golden valleys of the Sierras.

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About Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) was an American poet best known for "The New Colossus," whose lines "Give me your tired, your poor" are inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. She was an early advocate for Jewish refugees and anti-Semitism awareness.

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