America the Beautiful
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1. O beautiful for spacious skies
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   For amber waves of grain
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   For purple mountain majesties
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   Above the fruited plain
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   America, America
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   God shed his grace on thee
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   And crown thy good with brotherhood
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   From sea to shining sea

2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet
   Whose stern impassion'd stress
   A thoroughfare for freedom beat
   Across the wilderness.

3. America! America!
   God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
   Confirm thy soul in self-control,
   Thy liberty in law.

4. O beautiful for heroes prov'd
   In liberating strife,
   Who more than self their country loved,
   And mercy more than life.

5. America! America!
   May God thy gold refine
   Till all success be nobleness,
   And ev'ry gain divine.

6. O beautiful for patriot dream
   That sees beyond the years
   Thine alabster cities gleam
   Undimmed by human tears.

7. America! America!
   God shed his grace on thee,
   And crown thy good with brotherhood
   From sea to shining sea.