410 | The Hymnal#411 | 412 |
Text: | O beautiful for spacious skies |
Author: | Katherine Lee Bates |
Tune: | MATERNA |
Composer: | Samuel A. Ward |
1 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!
2 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!
3 O beautiful for glorious tale
Of liberating strife,
When valiantly for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
4 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!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O beautiful for spacious skies |
Author: | Katherine Lee Bates (1904) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Publication Date: | 1950 |
Topic: | The Kingdom of God on Earth: The Nation; Country, our; Nation, The |
Copyright: | Wods used by permission of Mrs. George S. Burgess. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MATERNA |
Composer: | Samuel A. Ward (1882) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Key: | C Major |