America the beautiful

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 for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw
Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law!

Oh, beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife
Who more than self the 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 undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee and crown thy good
With brotherhood from sea to shining sea!