America the Beautiful
Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
Words by Samuel Ward
O beautiful for spacious skies, O beautiful for pilgrim feet
For amber waves of grain, Whose stern impassioned stress
For purple mountain majesties A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Above the fruited plain! Across the wilderness!
America! America! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee God mend thine every flaw,
And crown thy good with brotherhood Confirm thy soul in self-control,
From sea to shining sea! Thy liberty in law!
For amber waves of grain, Whose stern impassioned stress
For purple mountain majesties A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Above the fruited plain! Across the wilderness!
America! America! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee God mend thine every flaw,
And crown thy good with brotherhood Confirm thy soul in self-control,
From sea to shining sea! Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved O beautiful for patriot dream
In liberating strife. That sees beyond the years
Who more than self their country loved Thine alabaster cities gleam
And mercy more than life! Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! America! America!
May God thy gold refine God shed his grace on thee
Till all success be nobleness And crown thy good with brotherhood
And every gain divine! From sea to shining sea!
In liberating strife. That sees beyond the years
Who more than self their country loved Thine alabaster cities gleam
And mercy more than life! Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! America! America!
May God thy gold refine God shed his grace on thee
Till all success be nobleness And crown thy good with brotherhood
And every gain divine! From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies, O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
For amber waves of grain, Whose stem impassioned stress
For purple mountain majesties A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Above the enameled plain! Across the wilderness!
America! America! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
And music-hearted sea! By pilgrim foot and knee!
For amber waves of grain, Whose stem impassioned stress
For purple mountain majesties A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Above the enameled plain! Across the wilderness!
America! America! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air Till paths be wrought through wilds of thought
And music-hearted sea! By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale O beautiful for patriot dream
Of liberating strife That sees beyond the years
Of liberating strife That sees beyond the years
When once and twice, for man’s avail Thine alabaster cities gleam
Men lavished precious life! Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! America! America!
God shed his grace on thee God shed his grace on thee
God shed his grace on thee God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain Till nobler men keep once again
The banner of the free! Thy whiter jubilee!
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