Where Are They Now? Ellis Island.
“How far would you travel to find a better life? What if the journey took weeks u far difficult conditions? If you answered, “Whatever it takes,” you echo the feelings of the 12 million immigrants who passed through the now quiet halls of Ellis Island from 1892 to 1954.” (www.nps.gov, Ellis Island)
In bold is the part taken from this poem to represent the Motto for
The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. It’s American dream and visions have since faded into the past and is now only a monument of days long since gone.
The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island’s Motto
“The New Colossus”
Written by poet: Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand, A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command. The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she with silent lips.
“Give me your tired, poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”