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America the Beautiful

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 their 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!
Autres oeuvres par Katharine Lee Bates...



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