Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, …
Emma Lazarus
I. The Exodus. (August 3, 1492.) …
Twilight is here, soft breezes bow the grass, …
Here, where the noises of the busy town, …
I see it as it looked one afternoon …
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, …
Not while the snow-shroud round dead earth is rolled, …
Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies …
Down the long hall she glistens like a star, …