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America the Beautiful
by
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O' beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose sterm impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O' beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self the country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Bates wrote this anthem after visiting Pike's Peak in a prairie wagon. She revised it before its final version came out in 1913. Traditionally, the poem is sung to music by Samuel Augustus Ward.
Insights...
Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively.
