Written by Katharine
Lee Bates in 1893
Inspired by her visit to the
mountaintop of Pikes Peak
Colorado Springs
O Beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple
mountains 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 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 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!
