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!