America The Beautiful
by Katharine Lee Bates - 1913
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine!
O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929) first wrote
America The Beautiful as a poem.
Later, Samuel A. Ward composed the music.
Today if we look around us, we can still see
spacious skies, waves of grain, and purple mountains.
God has shed his grace on us.
Peace!
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