America the Beautiful [Monday, Jul. 04, 2005, 10:56 pm]
I really think this should be our national anthem.
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! 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 the 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
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
wander -- travel
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