actually, that isn't even on the statue - it is from an ode to that statue written by a soft-hearted fool.
"actually, that isn't even on the statue - it is from an ode to that statue written by a soft-hearted fool."
Nope. It is actually an inscription on the Statue of Liberty.
A giant statue on an island in the harbor of New York City; it depicts a woman representing liberty, raising a torch in her right hand and holding a tablet in her left. At its base is inscribed a poem by Emma Lazarus that contains the lines Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The poem was written for a POETRY CONTEST, run by a N.Y. paper. IIRC, it was while bits and pieces of the statue were sitting here and there, all over N.Y.C., waiting to be put back together.