This
date, July 4, is the American Independence Day. I would like to wish all my
American friends a Blessed Independence Day. I chose this song, ‘America The
Beautiful’ as the Christian Song of the month. I got the information from
Wikipedia and Wikisource.
"America
the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written
by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and
choirmaster Samuel A. Ward.
Bates
originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the
Fourth of July edition of the church
periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem was
titled America for publication.
Ward
had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother
dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.
Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and
titled America the Beautiful.
The
song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
Lyrics:
O
beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
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!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O
beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America!
America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O
beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
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 ev'ry gain divine.
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O
beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
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.
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
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