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!