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America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates
At the summit of Pikes Peak,
Katharine Lee Bates was
inspired to pen the lines to
her most famous poem, "America
the Beautiful." She was
overwhelmed by the sights of
vast, open skies, planted
fields, and the majestic Rocky
Mountains. |
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America the
Beautiful -
1913 |
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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! |
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O beautiful for
halcyon skies,
For amber waves of
grain,
For purple mountain
majesties
Above the enameled
plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on
thee
Till souls wax fair as
earth and air
And music-hearted sea! |
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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! |
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O beautiful for
pilgrims feet,
Whose stern
impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for
freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America ! America !
God shed his grace on
thee
Till paths be wrought
through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and
knee! |
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O beautiful for heroes
proved In liberating
strife.
Who more than self the
country loved
And mercy more than
life!
America! America!
May God thy gold
refine
Till all success be
nobleness
And every gain divine! |
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O beautiful for
glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious
life !
America! America!
God shed his grace on
thee
Till selfish gain no
longer stain
The banner of the
free! |
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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! |
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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
Till nobler men keep
once again
Thy whiter jubilee! |
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 Katharine
Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 -
March 26, 1929), is remembered
as the author of the words to
the anthem America the
Beautiful. Died in Wellesley,
Massachusetts, on March 26,
1929.
Bates was born in Falmouth,
Massachusetts. The daughter of
a Congregational pastor, she
graduated from Wellesley
College in 1880 and for many
years was a professor of
English literature at
Wellesley.
The first draft of America the
Beautiful was hastily jotted
in a notebook during the
summer of 1893, which Miss
Bates spent teaching English
at Colorado College in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Later she remembered,
"One day some of the other
teachers and I decided to go
on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes
Peak. We hired a prairie
wagon. Near the top we had to
leave the wagon and go the
rest of the way on mules. I
was very tired. But when I saw
the view, I felt great joy.
All the wonder of America
seemed displayed there, with
the sea-like expanse."
The words to her one famous
poem first appeared in print
in The Congregationalist, a
weekly journal, for
Independence Day, 1895. The
poem reached a wider audience
when her revised version was
printed in the Boston Evening
Transcript, November 19, 1904.
Her final expanded version was
written in 1913.
The hymn has been sung to
other music, but the familiar
tune that Ray Charles
delivered is by Samuel A. Ward
(1847-1903), written for his
hymn Materna (1882).
Miss Bates was a prolific
author of many volumes of
poetry, travel books and
children's books. Her family
home on Falmouth's Main Street
is preserved by the Falmouth
Historical Society. |
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