America, the Beautiful.

        America, the Beautiful
   Words by Katherine Lee Bates 1893
        Music by Samuel A. Ward

   Oh, 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 brother hood,
       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 ev'ry 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,
       and mercy more than life.
           America, America
       May God thy gold refine,
    Till all success be nobleness,
        And ev'ry grain divine.

   Oh, 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.