Tuesday, April 28, 2026

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

 AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 


Words by KATHARINE LEE BATES 
Music by WILL C MACFARLANE 
Municipal Organist Portland Maine 

1. 1 O beautiful for spacious skies.
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
A bove 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, impassion'd stress 
 A thoroughfare for freedom beat
 A cross the wilderness!
America! America! 
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Con firm thy soul in self control, 
Thy sea liberty in law!   

3.O beautiful for heroes proved,
 In liberating strife, 
Who more than self their country loved.
And mercy more than life!
America! America! 
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine! 

4.O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years 
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimm'd by human tears!
America! America! 
God shed His grace on thee, 
And crown thy good with brotherhood, 
From sea to shining sea!

Refrain
America! America! God shed His grace on thee!