Apparently they ran into some money problems but still got it finished and dedicated just two years later on Oct 28, 1886. Hell, they wouldn't be able to get their Environmental Impact statements filed and approved in two years nowadays.....
Don't think many of us have read the full inscription (or remember it) I didn't:
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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Now if I was cynical, instead of the pussycat that I am, I might look at Lady Liberty as being a 'sleeping Trojan Horse' that woke up and bit us in the ass on her 100th birthday -- seems like about 1986 that the abuse of the immigration rules began to fester and flood the country with folks not 'yearning to breathe free' or melt into our great American melting pot........
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