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Ellis Island: The Isle of Hope
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Ellis Island: The Isle of Hope

On the first day of January Eighteen Ninety-Two
They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.
And the first to cross the threshold
Of the Isle of Hope and Tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of fifteen years.

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