Lady Liberty Sheds a Tear

The Lady has a tear in her eye It douses the flame of her torch Whose sparks perish on her lifeless gown Its greenery scarred, now a desolate brown As the specter of nativism stalks her land As strangers are branded 'undesirable,' and banned -- Recall what made America so great (again) Was the raw energy of newcomers way back when our floodgates opened wide to receive the tide of ill-clothed, ill-fed dreamers, possessed of pride to come here, and scratch and claw their way to our table, to prove their worth, to show that they were able to compete and make it in this Promised Land -- from which their spiritual descendants are now to be banned