America the Beautiful

Verse

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

Chorus

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good

With brotherhood,

From sea to shining sea!

Verse

O beautiful for pilgrim feet

Whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

Chorus

America! America!

God mend thine ev'ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul

In self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

Verse

O beautiful for heroes proved

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved,

And mercy more than life!

Chorus

America! America!

May God thy gold refine

Till all success

In nobleness,

And ev'ry gain divine!

Verse

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

Chorus

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good

With brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!