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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. I love that you chose this poem for such an important day as today! I am proud to exercise my right to cast my vote for the candidate of MY choice. I'm from Chicago where we'd tell one another, "vote early and vote often." As we ponder these fine lyrics let them remind us that many of our favorite songs began as poems. Thanks for sharing our history on this important day. It's too bad none of our candidates seem to give a damn about preserving our beautiful spacious skies or clean water or the fellow creatures who share the only place in the universe we caqn live. Many of Katharine’s photographs show her with her collie, Hamlet, who was a beloved companion. Serious-looking and somewhat awkward in movement, she was nonetheless very popular with her students because of her wicked sense of humor. Daughter of a Congregationalist minister who died when she was a month old, Katharine was an English professor at Wellesley College for many years, as well as a noted scholar, poet, and writer of books for both children and adults. Her poem, "America the Beautiful," was set to music and became the patriotic anthem we all know and love. If Katharine Lee Bates’ (1859 - 1929) name sounds familiar, it should be. ![]() America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears. America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness, And ev'ry gain divine. O beautiful for heroes prov'd In liberating strife, Who more than self their country lov'd, And mercy more than life. 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 impassion'd 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. Horatio Parker, one of the greatest of contemporary American composers, wrote the music, “America the Beautiful,” to which this hymn is set though it is frequently sung, and most effectively, to the tune “Materna”.Ask for this YDP anthology at your favorite bookstore or order it online today! These lines were set ringing in her heart, and into a noble poem she has woven the beauties of that mountain-top vision:Įach verse is crowned with a prayer that to the physical beauty of her native land God may add the highest moral beauty: The patriotic impressions made upon her mind by the wonderful White City she bore westward with her as she journeyed to Colorado.Īnd when at last she stood on the summit of Pike’s Peak and beheld the far-spreading panorama below and the spacious skies above, her soul was stirred by the thought of the greatness and the God-given destiny of America. She wrote it in 1893 while on a Western tour that brought her first to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Miss KATHARINE LEE BATES, professor of English Literature in Wellesley College, is the author of this hymn, O Beautiful for Spacious Skies. 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 brotherhood From sea to shining sea. In The Garden / I Come to the Garden Alone Hymn The History of O Beautiful for Spacious Skies Hymn Win Them One by One Hymn Story and Lyrics From Starry Skies Thou Comest | Christmas Sing-Along with LyricsĪmerica! America! May God thy gold refine,Īmerica! America! God mend thine every flaw,īelow are more posts on hymns and their lyrics:
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