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The New Colossus. The New Colossus is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849â1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. 1 History of the poem.
The Statue was reassembled on her new pedestal in four monthsâ time. On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland oversaw the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of spectators. She was a centennial gift ten years late.