The Singing Of America The Beautiful

America The Beautiful is written by Katherine Lee Bates, 1904, and the music is by Samuel Augustus Ward, 1882.

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.

O 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.

O beautiful for glory tale of liberating strife
When valiantly, for man's avail, men lavished precious life
America! America! May God they 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.