This poem celebrates the natural beauty of America from its spacious skies and amber waves of grain to its purple mountain majesties. It praises America and asks God to shed his grace upon the country, crown it with brotherhood from sea to shining sea, and refine its success so that all gains are noble. The poem expresses patriotic themes of freedom, heroism in battle, and the pilgrims who established America as a thoroughfare for freedom.

1. America, The Beautiful Words by Katherine Lee Bates in 1893 Music by Samuel A Ward in 1882 PP by Kristin Lukow

2. Oh beautiful, for spacious skies

3. For amber waves grain,

4. For purple mountain majesties

5. Above the fruited plain.

6. America

7. America

8. God shed His grace on Thee,

9. And crown thy good

10. With brotherhood

11. From sea

12. To shining sea.

13. Oh beautiful, for pilgrim feet

14. whose stern impassioned stress.

15. A thoroughfare for freedom beat

16. Across the wilderness

17. America, America,

18. God mend thine every flaw.

19. Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law.

20. Oh beautiful, for heroes proved

21. In liberating strife

22. Who more than self their country loved,

23. And mercy more than life.

24. America, America

25. May God thy gold refine.

26. Till all success be nobleness,

27. And every gain divine.

28. O beautiful, for spacious skies

29. For amber waves grain,

30. For purple mountain majesties

31. Above the fruited plain.

32. America, America

33. God shed His grace on Thee.

34. And crown thy good

35. With brotherhood

36. From sea

37. To shining sea.

38. And crown Thy good

39. With brotherhood

40. From sea

41. To shining sea.