Ian Smith

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"I have been much moved by your letter; and the pleasure it has given me has some little sorrowful ingredient in it. In the strife and struggle of this great world where most of us lose each other so strangely, it is impossible to be spoken to out of the old times without a softened emotion. You so belong to the days when the qualities that have done me most good since, were growing in my boyish heart that I cannot end my answer to you lightly. We are all sailing away to the sea, and have a pleasure in thinking of the river we are upon, when it was very narrow and little." Charles Dickens 
Letter to his first love, Maria Beadnell. 
10th February 1855
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!"
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lovely view of salt marsh in new england
Empty lawn surrounded by crowd at bryant park in nyc
shelves of ceramics
Man holding stop light, glyph on light looks like his hand