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!
Katharine Lee Bates
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Marching Feet
SE August nights, hushed but for drowsy Of fledglings, tremble with a strange vibration, A sound too far for hearing, sullen, dire, Shaking the earth
His Bit
LY swung the old carpenter up to his door, Drums and fifes in his tread, But softly he crossed the braided mats on the floor, Gently he stroked her head
The Great Twin Brethren
The battle will not cease Till once again on those white steeds ye ride, O heaven-descended Twins, Before humanity's bewildered host Our javelins Fly wide,
Freedoms Battle-Song
ED, white, blue, the flag that leads us on, Stripes as red as blood well shed by many a hero gone Now 'tis ours to storm the towers of tyranny and wrong, Freedom's sons who front the guns with Freedom's battle-song
