by:
Katherine Lee Bates
O
beautiful for spacious skies,
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.
Oh
beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose
stern, 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.
Oh
beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife
Who
more than self their country loved,
Whose
stern, 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 patriot dreams
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.