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Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread

Quote byEmma Lazarus · 1849–1887

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Poems of Emma Lazarus (1889), "The Cranes of Ibicus", l. 13.

English (original)

Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!

— Emma Lazarus

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