America The Beautiful

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O beautiful for spacious skies,   
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for amber waves of grain   
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For purple mountain majesties,   
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above the fruited plain!   
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America! America!   
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God shed his grace on thee   
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And crown thy good with brotherhood,   
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from sea to shining sea!   

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O beautiful for pilgrim feet,   
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whose stern impassioned stress  
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A thoroughfare of freedom beat,   
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across the wilderness!   
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America! America!   
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God mend thine every flaw   
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Confirm thy soul in self-control,   
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Thy liberty in law!   

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O beautiful for heroes proved,   
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in liberating strife.  
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Who more than self their country loved,  
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and mercy more than life!   
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America! America!   
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May God thy gold refine   
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Till all success be nobleness,   
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and every gain divine!   


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O beautiful for patriot dream,   
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that sees beyond the years   
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Thine alabaster cities gleam,   
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undimmed by human tears!   
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America! America!   
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God shed his grace on thee   
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And crown thy good with brotherhood,   
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from sea to shining sea!   


O beautiful for halcyon skies,   
For amber waves of grain,   
For purple mountain majesties   
Above the enameled plain!   
America! America!   
God shed his grace on thee   
Till souls wax fair as earth and air   
And music-hearted sea!   

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,   
Whose stem impassioned stress   
A thoroughfare for freedom beat   
Across the wilderness!   
America! America!   
God shed his grace on thee   
Till paths be wrought through   
wilds of thought   
By pilgrim foot and knee!   

O beautiful for glory-tale   
Of liberating strife   
When once and twice,   
for man's avail   
Men lavished precious life!   
America! America!   
God shed his grace on thee   
Till selfish gain no longer stain   
The banner of the free!   

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   
Till nobler men keep once again   
Thy whiter jubilee!