The Hymnal 1982 719
O beautiful for spacious skies
- Tune
- materna
- Author(s)
- Katherine Lee Bates, 1859-1929
- Composer(s)
- Samuel Augustus Ward, 1848-1903
- Meter
- 8.6.8.6 D
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1 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!
2 O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.
3 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!