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The harbor-straddling Colossus was a figment of medieval imaginations based on the dedication text's mention of " over land and sea " twice.

Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).