Emma Lazarus
A gift from the people of France.
She has watched over New York Harbor since 1886, and on her base is a tablet inscribed with words penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
“Emma Lazarus
A gift from the people of France.”
She was not a gift from the people of France and the poem was placed there in 1903.