The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

by Katharine Lee Bates(Materna by Samuel Augustus Ward)

For other versions of this work, see America the Beautiful.

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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

(MATERNA C. M. D.)

Katherine Lee Bates,1893, revised 1910

Samuel A. Ward, 1882

1. 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 !
   
2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern, impas-sioned 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 !
   
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 every gain divine.
   
4. 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 ! Amen.