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Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]

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Title
Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]
Author
Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887
Publication
Boston: New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1889
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"Poems of Emma Lazarus. Vol. 2, Jewish poems : translations [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAK3042.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.

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1492.

THOU two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate,Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword,The children of the prophets of the Lord,Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,The West refused them, and the East abhorred.No anchorage the known world could afford,Close-locked was every port, barred every gate.

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Then smiling, thou unveil'dst, O two-faced year,A virgin world where doors of sunset part,Saying, "Ho, all who weary, enter here!There falls each ancient barrier that the artOf race or creed or rank devised, to rearGrim bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!"
1883.
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