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              America, the Beautiful

              Written By: Katharine 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!

              O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
              Whose stern, imassioned stress
              A thoroughfare for freedom beat
              Across the wilderness!
              America! America!
              God mend thy every flaw,
              Confirm thy soul in self control,
              Thy liberty in law!

              O beautiful for heros 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 beatiful 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!