| Text: | Katharine Lee Bates | 1895 |
| Music: | Samuel A. Ward | 1882 |
| Tune: | Materna | 86.86D |
| OHT Incipit: | 55335 52234 56755 | |
O beautiful for spacious skys,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plains.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From see to shining sea.
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thy ev'ry flaw,
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 mersy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success is nobleness
And ev'ry 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 see to shining sea.
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