Lady of Liberty 



One hundred years after France's revolution

A great token of the country's love of solutions

Arrived at the shores of Manhattan Island ...

Where it was redirected to take its stand ...



As a tribute to all immigrants who've come

Across the seas ... weary, tired and numbed

To the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

A country now filled with new Americans in waves



Who all can visit this enormous tribute to Freedom

A statue of a lady holding in her hands two things

In one - is a torch (with interior lights) held aloft

And in another is a book representing the lot ...



The papers drafted by the Founding Fathers

Which clearly defines Freedom for its partners

And inscribed with the date this all became real

... The one when a country unleashed all her seals



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

10:55am Thurs. June 17th, 1999



The 306' tall Statue of Liberty stands 

in NY Harbor - on Liberty Island.

Both it and nearby Ellis Island,

were named a national monument

in 1924. Designed and sculpted by

Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, it was

given to the USA by France to 

commemorate the centennial,

arriving in New York City on 

the French ship Isere

on June 17th, 1885.



The date inscribed is July 4th, 1776.



The documents represented by the book:

The Declaration of Independence

The American Constitution

The Bill of Rights