Good morning on this wet Friday.

Emma Lazarus, who wrote a sonnet in 1883 to raise money for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, is again the talk of the town.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” she wrote in the poem, which was inscribed on a plaque and mounted inside the monument in 1903.

The meaning of those words garnered renewed attention on Wednesday at a White House news briefing to announce President Trump’s push for immigration reform. Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser, played down the significance of Lazarus’s poem on the monument. The sonnet “was added later,” he said. “It’s not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty.”

But to Lazarus, born in New York City, the statue was the Mother of Exiles — a symbol of the United States as a nation of immigrants and opportunity.