The New Colossus

The New Colossus

Based on the poem by Emma Lazarus

By the light of a fading star

in the dawn of a glowing sky

calling out across the sea

crying out with silent lips…

on a misty harbor floor

with a sound like a seagulls call

freedom crying in the night

shining brighter than the brightest star

sea washed land and sunset gates

freedom calling in the night

a beacon brighter than the dark

it is calling out across the sea

it is crying out with silent lips

Chorus:

Give me your weak, give me your poor

give me the refuse from your teeming shore

throw them tempest tossed to me

I lift my lamp beside the golden door (repeat 3 times)

Night is fallen all around

light is fading from the ground

but still I hear the sound

calling out across the sea

crying out with silent lips

Chorus

Your huddled masses, yearning to be free, her flame is the imprisoned lightening

The wretched refuse, from your teeming shore, mother of exiles, with a flaming torch…

Chorus
© 2007 Hahnemann/MacTallaMor