Sunday, July 17, 2016

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

America The Beautiful
lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates

Oh 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!


Oh beautiful for pilgrim feet


whose stern impassioned stress


A thoroughfare of freedom beat


Across the wilderness!


America! America!


God mend thy every flaw!


Confirm thy soul in self-control,


Thy liberty in law!



Oh 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!


Oh beautiful for patriot dream!

that sees beyond the years


thine alabaster cities gleam

                                                                                                    yes! those are real elks roaming around!

undimmed by human tears



America! America!


God shed his grace on thee!


and crown thy good with brotherhood


from sea to shining sea



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