America, the Beautiful

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America, the Beautiful
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
Psalm 3312 NIV

• Words by Katharine Lee Bates
• Music by Samuel A. Ward

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• O beautiful for spacious skies,

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• For amber waves of grain,

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• For purple mountain majesties

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• Above the fruited plain!

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• America! America!

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• God shed His grace on thee,

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• And crown thy good
• With brotherhood

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• From sea to shining sea.

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• O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

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• Whose stern, impassioned stress

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• A thoroughfare
• for freedom beat,

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• Across the wilderness

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• America! America!

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• God mend thine evry flaw,

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• Confirm thy soul in self control,

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• Thy liberty in law.

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• O beautiful for heroes proved

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• In liberating strife,

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• Who more than self
• their country loved,

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• And mercy more than life!

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• America! America!

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• May God thy gold refine,

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• 'Til all success be nobleness,

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• And every gain divine.

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• O beautiful for patriot dream

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• That sees, beyond the years

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• Thine alabaster cities gleam,

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• Undimmed by human tears!

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• America! America!

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• God shed His grace on thee,

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• And crown thy good
• With brotherhood

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• From sea to shining sea.