Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate,
Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword,
The children of the prophets of the Lord,
Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.
Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,
The West refused them, and the East abhorred.
No anchorage the known world could afford,
Close-locked was every port, barred every gate.
Then smiling, thou unveil'dst, O two-faced year,
A virgin world where doors of sunset part
Saying, "Ho, all who weary, enter here!
Lazarus is reinstating that the surrounding nations would not let the Jews in. Every port was closed-locked, every gate was barred. “All nations of the known world rejected the refugees”. 

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