Yes it does. It is entitled Liberty enlightening the World , symbolizing the US innovation of modern democracy, but Emma Lazarus, daughter of immigrants, perverted it into a welcome for "wretched refuse."
I do wish you would do some homework and learn some history before you start embarrassing yourself.
Emma wrote the poem in 1883 to help raise funds via an auction for the building of the pedestal. (Most people didn't donate money to the project. They didn't even want the statue in the first place.) The full poem appeared in both the
New York World and the
New York Times and quickly fell into obscurity. Emma died in 1887.
It wasn't until 1901 that the poem was discovered by a friend of Emma's and a campaign to get the poem engraved on a plaque began. In 1903, the campaign was successful and the engraved plaque was installed inside the pedestal.
Emma had nothing to do with it, and to call it a perversion is truly disgusting.
By the way, Emma's parents emigrated from Poland. Emma was born in New York City. But she was Jewish, so your comments make total sense. Your hatred and bigotry is shining just as brightly as Lady Liberty herself.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/emma-lazarus.htm
The New Colossus
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, your 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!"
