The friction between professed ideals and painful reality that Langston Hughes captured in his poem Let America Be America Again is also the foundation of this piece. Emma Lazarus' words, which are
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With a melody of unknown origin and a text written by Samuel Francis Smith, this work was given its first public performance on July 4, 1831 at an Independence Day celebration in Boston. It was published a